Where does this all end?

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The Russiagate hoax is complete nonsense and is perhaps the first time in history that an unsubstantiated (literally entirely unsubstantiated) demonisation campaign has survived in the US media for so long. I'm not a supporter of Trump by the way; I despise him just as much as every other US president in my lifetime, but it's terrifying that any US politician, even a president, can have his reputation thrown into the ground on the basis of complete lies. It's not just Trump either; the corporate mainstream media has actually tried to claim that the Russians conspired for Brexit, too (again, with no evidence). They even claimed Chelsea Manning was a Russian agent. It seems like anybody or anything that might potentially be a threat to the military industrial complex and its corporate interests is blamed on Russia, and that's enough to neutralise the threat, appealing to the native Russophobia of North Americans and Western Europeans. It should be pointed out, fo course, that Trump is far from being a threat to the military industrial complex; in his case, it's a diversionary tactic. While people are being diverted by good-guy/bad-guy nonsense and party politics, Big Business takes away the people's wealth and civil rights by stealth. Trump is a slave of Big Business just as much as Obama was. I bet the two of them have a good laugh at the American public's expense if they ever get together in private.

On the poster's main point, it's true that the Democratic Party would have done a lot better if it had presented a genuinely alternative candidate. If Bernie Sanders had got through the primaries, the Democrats would have won by a landslide, but that's just the thing; nobody with a genuine concern for the good of the American public ever will be allowed to reach a stage where he might be elected into office, because Big Business controls the electroral mechanisms of both parties. I think the only hope for the Americans is if they start voting for third parties, like we're doing in Europe.

That was my adult response. You compared tasteless arts & crafts to attempted murder.

Great post. And yes, now when any decision goes the way the establishment didn't want they just blame Russia. Means they don't need to deal with the consequences.

It would definitely help. But also, I want to see American workers have a higher minimum wage in order to give them more buying power, which would provide the warp engine to the economy. That, and holding the banks and business accountable, with the prosecutions to prove that they are. Along with that, make it virtually impossible for business to move industries overseas for the sake of paying impoverished people a starvation wage just to get out of paying American workers a good wage. And don't be afraid to tax people with money - the rich aren't going to starve just because they would have to pay more.

Both parties keep doing that. Only the people of the country can put more pressure than they are under through big business. Change has to come above winning.

Change usually comes though through winning.

Change usually comes though through winning.

It doesn't actually. Both main parties have barely changed anything over the years. The Democrats need to keep losing if they are going to reform. They still haven't learned anything from 2016.

It doesn't actually. Both main parties have barely changed anything over the years. The Democrats need to keep losing if they are going to reform. They still haven't learned anything from 2016.