Comments on: Illegitimate https://www.lauralanden.com/illegitimate/ Photography Fri, 20 Aug 2021 01:21:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9 By: Laura Landen https://www.lauralanden.com/illegitimate/#comment-1980 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 19:16:08 +0000 http://www.lauralanden.com/?p=1298#comment-1980 In reply to Edward Lawson.

Well said. The concern many people have now is that those things that have sustained us in the past will be eroded too significantly to continue to sustain us. Vigilance is essential.

]]> By: Edward Lawson https://www.lauralanden.com/illegitimate/#comment-1979 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:19:24 +0000 http://www.lauralanden.com/?p=1298#comment-1979 Laura and others: great and insightful although varying comments. Our democratic government has undergone dramatic and frequently cataclysmic challenges from the day after the Revolution ended to the present, such as the Articles of the Confederation, Adams v Jefferson, Civil War, Teapot Dome, presidential assignations and impeachments, depressions, slavery, civil rights, Nixon’s resignation, Gore’s Supreme Court challenge, etc., and now Trump’s presidency. Many of these and other moments in American history would have brought down lesser governments with chaos in the streets. Through all of this and more, Americans looked to the Constitution for guidance and by doing so made America stronger. Our democratic institution is our life blood which gives us comfort and reassurance that America will and can survive any challenge.

]]> By: Laura Landen https://www.lauralanden.com/illegitimate/#comment-1978 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:02:19 +0000 http://www.lauralanden.com/?p=1298#comment-1978 In reply to Karina Lutz.

Critical thinking skills are at a low ebb, for sure. Sometimes voters get the government they deserve, if not the one they wanted. Time will tell this time around.

]]> By: Laura Landen https://www.lauralanden.com/illegitimate/#comment-1977 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:00:45 +0000 http://www.lauralanden.com/?p=1298#comment-1977 In reply to roberta miller.

Yes, of course the Wikileaks material, disseminated with little critical attention by news media, did clearly influence voters. But, how many and how much? Was it determinative of the election? Hard to quantify, thus hard to determine. Not like ballot box stuffing or hacking into balloting systems. Remember, Trump lost the popular vote by over 2.9 million.

]]> By: roberta miller https://www.lauralanden.com/illegitimate/#comment-1976 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 04:18:54 +0000 http://www.lauralanden.com/?p=1298#comment-1976 “Russian influence in this election cycle. I have some hesitation in simply accepting this justification, for the reality of Russian hacking, while indisputable and intended to have influence, has not been proven to have determined the outcome.” Is the intangible of a person’s mind and heart provable? When people accept the ‘revelations’ as true and then choose to believe that Hilary is crooked, etc, is not that evidence that the emails did influence voters.

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