If the recount does reveal hacking, we will never be allowed to know. [View all]
I'm watching Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States.
I'm about 9 episodes in and one thing that stands out, over and over, is just how 'in the dark' most American citizens are kept... intentionally.
Whether it's over Nixon's bombings in Cambodia, JBL lying about death tolls in Vietnam, the Japanese government's willingness to surrender before the Atom Bomb was dropped, or just how close we came to nuclear war under Eisenhower's communication breakdown, JFK's health Addison's disease and drug addiction... the prevailing thought seemed to be: "Yes, this is bad, but it will be worse if the citizens know. They can't handle it. So, they can't know."
If it turned out that the recount exposed a fatal hack, one that could reverse the results and call our election's into question on a global scale... they would never allow the people to know.
They would reason that America is now starting to accept a Trump presidency, and letting Trump maintain the presidency would cause less damage that:
An international lack of faith in American democracy.
A potential Civil War that could kill millions.
A potential war with Russia.
The fall from grace of some of our nation's most prominent plutocrats.
Make no mistake, they would see Trump's presidency as a disaster, and they would act swiftly behind the scenes to fix this before the next election, but they would never let us know what is going on.
The past is prologue. They didn't trust the American people in the past and they wouldn't trust us now.
This is not to say that I don't support the recount. I do. I even donated. I'm just pointing out this sad reality.
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