What don’t you understand about me saying it is not widespread belief among democrats?
It’s not rocket science I’m explaining here Doug. I made it pretty ■■■■■■■ clear and you just come back with the same ■■■■■ like the fact that the number of votes in those states were small it proves that the belief was widespread that …
You know what, ■■■■ this. I’m not wasting time with you again.
You certainly are. I was simply explaining that the collusion theorists used arguments about slim margins in some states as part of their explanation of how the collusion could have cost Hillary the election. I never said it wasn’t true that there were thin margins. You come in and act as if though I questioned whether there were thin margins in those states and are making some sort of point regarding a fact we both knew.
I did not think that would even be a questioned fact.
As to how widespread the conspiracy theory is, I have certainly seen it in the media and in peoples posts many many times. I have never seen an actual poll on it that I remember.
Part of it is the establishment Rs that I said would be fighting tooth and nail against Trump to maintain their corrupt status quo. They have, they are and will in the future. The good news is they are loosing ground as this truth is being exposed.
But why would they make them public? Why would they want to help Trump?
If they didn’t know Trump would be better for them, it does’t make sense that they would want to help him. And in order for them to know he would be better for them, they would have had to talked to him, or the campaign.
Or they could have looked at his public statements on foreign policy and decided that they approved of his policies, which tended more towards reconciliation with Russia, were more to their benefit.
Plus, if their goal, as has been claimed by many, was to disrupt our democracy, then it would make sense to attack the person who really would have been President. They could read media projections on the likely winner, too. Many of the troll statements after the election were anti Trump, as well as pro Trump
The point is, you don’t have to go to a conspiracy/Manchurian candidate theory to explain what they did…unless you just want to do that.
I would not call them “pro-Russia” policies…just less confrontational and more towards reconciliation than that of Obama and Hillary (which, btw, did nothing to stop the taking of the Crimea).
I consider reconciliation and negotiation to be positive steps, and the Russians haven’t released any emails of my “enemies” (if I have any)
Unless two parties have exacdtly the same outlook, one is going to be seen as more favorable than the other…that is inevitable.
Sorry…still no Manchurian candidate.