If Sam Ervin were alive today, he could say exactly what he said in 1973 at the outset of the televised Watergate hearings:
“If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee
at the Watergatewere in effect breaking into the home of every citizen of the United States. And if these allegations prove to be true, what they were seeking to steal was not the jewels, money or other precious property of American citizens, but something much more valuable — their most precious heritage: the right to vote in a free election.”
Just because the Russians did this using the internet instead of by picking locks doesn’t make it the slightest bit different.
true. And if the Republican Party gave a single flying fuck about country over party loyalty we wouldn’t be in this position. But they do’t, and here we are…
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Sen. Ervin went on to say that because US intelligence agencies had a history of monkeywrenching foreign elections there’s a limit to how upset we should get when it happens to our elections.
In fact, didn’t ol’ Sam say we should hold all Presidents going back to McKinley responsible for the break-in at DNC headquarters, and that Johnson, Kennedy, Roosevelt, Truman and Wilson should be held most responsible?
I seem to recall Senator Ervin gaveled down his Watergate Committee in the middle of the investigation so all Senators in the Democratic Caucus could go on a road trip to their States and personally apologize to their constituents for their sole responsibility for the criminal activities of the Nixon Administration.
Didn’t Senator Talmadge flagellate himself at a Town Hall with a cat o’ nine tails? I swear I remember seeing this on Cronkite, but I can’t find it on the Internet toobz. Oh well, lost to the sands of time.
Democrats were so much more woke back then. Would that we could learn from their example. There are no changes which have taken place in electoral and media laws since then which could explain some of our current challenges.