It's devastating to learn that foreign governments and other unfriendly elements have exploited vulnerabilities in our election system. However, while we're out trying to solve the problem with hardware, software, and censorship, we're forgetting the most important and least protected vulnerability in our system, people.
Zbigniew Brzezinski (that was Mika's dad) had it right when he said and I'll paraphrase; "we've lost our ability to reason and to think critically". If there are two things to take away from the 2016 election they are; 1) There were no foreign agents in the booth with us when we voted, and 2) the government can't protect us from our own gullibility.
UPDATE -
Since the writing of this blogspot, the 12th person in the Presidential Line of Succession has resigned in disgrace and virtually the entire administration is under investigation by special prosecutors for the DOJ/FBI for the distinct possibility of collusion with a foreign government, whose purpose was to engage presidential candidates, campaign members, and various other Americans that possibly include members of Congress and other government agencies, in acts of subversion and treason against the United States by interfering in our election system. So without being too snarky I ask; Exactly how does a nation undo the damage done by it's own gullibility?
No comments:
Post a Comment