Russia's Interference In American Election

A big deal has been made about Russia's supposed interference in America's presidential campaign.

A bit of history.

In 1996, America and other Western countries poured a lot of money into Boris Yeltsin's re-election campaign. Yeltsin was very unpopular at the time, as the place was a complete mess. So how can they logically forbid places like Russia from interfering in their own campaigns?

The most ironic thing about this is that for a long time Russia has been identified with Communism; but here they supported the Republican candidate. At least on social issues, Russians are much closer to Republicans than they are to Democrats. Russians are a highly gendered population, and they also are good at producing real literature and real art. So it would come as no surprise that they would support a candidate who believes in traditional roles and who also has an excellent taste in architecture and has commissioned some of America's most beautiful buildings.

Now of course the Russian government may have much different reasons for supporting Donald Trump, who appears to be good friends with Putin. It is correct to say that other countries should not be meddling in America's elections, but here we see something very interesting. The kind of people who are most vocal about this stance are the right-wingers, and the right-wingers benefited from Russia's interference in America's elections. Whereas many Democrats are internationalists, and in this situation they lost out.

Sometimes it works to think things through before formulating policy. If you want greater engagement with the rest of the world, then this kind of thing will happen. If there is a one-world government with everyone having a vote, then it would be the Muslims and Hindus that command vast power around the world. And Muslims and Hindus are not known for being feminists.

So we are seeing the logical outcome of some of the stances that we have seen. And this outcome has hurt mostly the people who have that stance. At which point it will become incumbent upon the Democrats to either correct their stance or live with its consequences. And this consequence is completely logical according to their own beliefs.