This is the practice of a totalitarian system, ironically under the illusion of a free-thinking, independent media.
The real story here is how American democracy is bought and paid for by powerful elite interests within the country. The email hacking issue on how Clinton is being selected as the next president by powerful corporations and the military industrial complex should be focus.
But no. The public's attention is diverted by fantasies over villainous Vlad and his comrade Trump.
American politics has long been scoffed at by international observers as a joke version of democracy. Now we know it is a joke, and it's not funny.
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