Russian interference and the 2020 election...what's next?

[myohmy2]

I think we're at a crossroads...

Vanity Fair, Hive, 2-20-2019

" The 2020 race is hardly underway, and already candidates are being targeted with the same techniques Russia employed in the 2016 and 2018 cycles. According to Politico, which confirmed its findings with digital experts, a “sustained and ongoing” disinformation campaign has begun in earnest, targeting top Democrats including Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Beto O’Rourke. It’s not clear whether Russia is behind this latest round of election meddling, but per Politico, “there are clear signs of a coordinated effort of undetermined size that shares similar characteristics with the computational propaganda attacks launched by online trolls at Russia’s Internet Research Agency.” "
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" According to the analysis, the latest disinformation campaign reportedly consists of a familiar cocktail of memes, hashtags, and misleading portrayals of candidates’ positions. The aim, it seems, is to exploit and exacerbate divisions between Americans; as in 2016, many of the posts specifically play on race. Harris, Politico notes, has been the subject of “racist and sexist stereotypes” in tweets sensationalizing her relationship with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. Another popular false story claimed Warren had a blackface doll in the background of an Instagram live stream she conducted on New Year’s Eve. And O’Rourke was the subject of a tweet from a suspicious account that claimed he had used racist language in a voicemail in the 1990s. "

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/is-russia-already-meddling-in-2020-election
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It looks like very little is being done to save our democracy. Right-wing forces are hard at work to thwart and swing the 2020 election to their hand-picked stooges. Few appear to be duly concerned that this inability to have a clean election goes to the heart of our democracy. If elections aren't real, then the results aren't real and don't matter. And without legitimate election results we have no democracy. The Constitution becomes little more than a quaint piece of paper.

If the 2020 election goes like the 2016 election, what's next?

[duforsure]

1. While trump and the gop

Help putin and russia by ignoring it. Guess they didn't learn anything from the Mid terms. It also shows they're intent to allow once again the illegal , and un-American corrupting of our election process. This will catch up to them .