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In reply to the discussion: Suddenly it all comes down, all at once...Too late. You are compromised beyond repair. [View all]Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)They have used religion to coral their military and give them a rallying center point. Russia is a weak country and they need the USA to fall in with them for strength in their quest. Butina and the NRA and the right wing national prayer breakfast takeover by Russians exposed a little of their goals.
Russia knows the Plutocrats here love money and will do most anything for it. Russians travelled around unheeded in America to find cracks in our system. The cracks they found are grounded in things that make America great. Our racial diversity is ripe for divisive operations. Same with income inequality. Our free society enables bad actors to roam free and devise ways to take us down slowly and with little notice.
Trump, and his inept henchmen have enabled good, patriotic Americans to pull back the curtain and expose their evil doings. America got lucky because the guy Russia hung their hats on is so bumbling and buffoonish that their plans got exposed even before he was sworn in.
Our system wasnt quite ready for such a huge assault on the Constitutional protections afforded us by the Great Ones a long time ago. But, slowly but surely, they will be beaten back into the shadows. The bad actors know Democrats and patriotic Americans will try their best to not take up arms to get Democracy back, but they also know if they push too far, it WILL happen.
The right wing Plutocrats fear of losing their wealth is keeping the total breakdown in check. Russia and other bad actors want the total breakdown to happen to take advantage of the chaos, but that is too much of potential loss for old and new money to bear.