The rules were the rules and like it or not Trump won by the rules.
Hi Craig,
Sure, technically you are correct. But that doesn't mean that the result reflects what the total (or even a majority(?) of the) population would want.
Major blame is with those who didn't vote out of disinterest, but now feel misrepresented. They should blame themselves. Another aspect is that the US electoral process as it is,
has its flaws itself.
I’m not a fan of hacking, but I’m really happy the data was made public.
Yet there seems to be suspiciously little interest in Trump's business ties that limit (or worse steer) his maneuvering space in global politics. We already saw that with the ban on Muslim travel into the USA, which we are not allowed to call a ban, although he did himself. The selectivity is
amazing discrimination and unconstitutional, under the guise of terrorism prevention. None of the affected countries have perpetrated acts of terrorism in the USA, yet countries that have, e.g. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libia, other Gulf states, are not mentioned. Why.
While I’m on that subject lets not be blind to the very real possibility that the US hacks governments around the world and puts its fingers into elections as well.
As revealed by Ed Snowden, programs like
'Prism' target both foreign as well as local citizens, and government officials. What they do with the information is not obvious, but I'm not naive.
Cheers,
Bart