E-mails Aren't All The Same.

      
       Exactly what's the connection (s) between Trump, Putin, DNC e-mails and Clinton? Let's work backwards. Clinton had nothing to do with  any of this so forget that angle. The DNC e-mails showed a preference for Hillary by the staff of the Democratic National Committee. They were hacked open and then given to Wikileaks by official Russian computer spies. Putin fears Clinton, and favors Trump for President. Trump has been trying for decades to do business in Russia and has shown unusual admiration for Putin of late and that admiration seems to be mirrored by Putin.
       Now its one thing for a foreign official to have preferences in our elections but its quite another thing to get involved to the extent of this releasing of pirated e-mails in order to sway voters without them knowing that the e-mails were being released by Russia, our sworn enemy by the way.
       Now, no one is suggesting that Trump had anything to do with either the spying or the release of the e-mails, but it does play into Putin's plans. And certainly it has the effect of helping Trump, although nobody knows how much. My guess is that some Bernie supporters could decide to sit home come November. A sad state of affairs.
       The bad guys here are the DNC staff and Putin. We should expect this kind of action from Russia and Wasserman-Shultz lost her chair of the Democratic party over it, but the rest of the DNC staff had best learn from their stupid mistake. I'd also suggest the RNC staff take note of the problem and clean up their act because we both know they were doing the same thing as the DNC.
       So what's the outtake for us in all of this? Politicians and the folks who work for them can't really be trusted all that much. And Russia can't be trusted at all, but then we already knew that. Too bad we can't find a better way to govern without politicians or dictators. Maybe a computer, but then somebody would hack it.