Democrats blame Russians for electoral defeat
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The Democrats continue to blame their defeat on Russian hacking. “Vladi mir Putin himself directed the covert cyber-attacks against our electoral sys tem, against our democracy, apparently because he has a personal beef against me,” said Hillary Clinton.
However, nearly all capitalist govern ments around the world have intelli gence services and do whatever they can to influence politics in other coun tries to their own advantage. Internet hacking is common. The U.S. excels in this area, spending more on cyber hacking than any other country. So, the U.S. government shouldn’t be sur prised when other countries replicate its methods.
Blaming Russia’s “interference in our democratic process” displays the height of hypocrisy because the Democratic Party generally promotes democratic rights only when it can benefit political ly, and never consistently defends them. Throughout history, the actions of Dem ocratic Party politicians show that they attack democratic rights when it serves their class interests, and have consis tently undermined democracy and sub verted democratic elections around the world.
The Democratic Party has a long his tory of promoting regime change in other countries through wars, assassi nations, and subversion. The list is long but includes Libya in 2011, and Iraq in 2006, and repeated attempts to over throw the revolutionary government of Cuba since the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion of the CIA in 1961.
Both the Democratic and Republican parties have successfully overturned elected governments and actively sub verted democratic elections. An in complete list is: Haiti from 1990-2004; Chile, 1973; Dominican Republic and Indonesia, 1965; Brazil, 1964; Congo, 1961; Vietnam, 1950s; Guatemala, 1954; Iran, 1953.
Hillary Clinton, while the Obama ad ministration’s Secretary of State, played a key role in the 2009 military coup to topple the democratically elected gov ernment Honduran government of President Manuel Zelaya.
As a New York Senator, Hillary Clin ton presented her views on democracy and elections. Responding to the Jewish Press about the January 2006 election to the legislature of the Palestinian Na tional Authority, Clinton commented on the victory for Hamas over the U.S.-pre ferred Fatah: “I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Pal estinian territories. I think that was a big mistake....
“And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.” n