Since the mass media (and therefore public opinion) is swamped with the Russia Russia Russia propaganda, here's a quick synopsis of all the *facts* you sadly can't find on our American television or "news" outlets:
To begin with, our elections are anything but democratic or un-influenced. The party representatives are selected by very small groups of wealthy people, who also maintain the chosen loyalist (ie, financially-incentivized) pool of "Superdelegates" for counteracting the wills of *entire states*. When the DNC was sued their court defense was that they have no actual obligation to perform fair elections. They repealed every protection possible against unlimited or foreign campaign donations and lobbying. Every news outlet was Trump 24/7 in an attempt to win it for Hillary through "lesser evilism"- a theory Democrats use often, but which backfired.
Forced to choose between two hated millionaires, stuck between the establishment corruption or a liar's claim of anti-establishmentism, left this country totally divided. But the numbers don't lie. The problem was that neither of these warmongering, egomaniac corporatists represented the people. For a country that facilitates daily atrocities on foreign ground by using the excuse of "defending democracy," we don't actually practice it. Such direct control is referred to as "mob rule", and to be stopped at all costs for the "good" of the country. Or, at least for the good of wealthy politicians, lobbyists, and businesses who profit off our military industrial complex.
What Russia was accused of doing is merely running a phishing scheme which 'resulted' in Wikileaks airing an email assortment of the DNC's dirty laundry. Ignoring all content (because that would lay some blame at their own feet) and ignoring the polls (which all predicted a Clinton loss against Trump) it became the DNC's go-to excuse that Russian interference was the reason for their loss. Then Hillary-backing three-letter agencies signed off on their "it looks like it could be the kind of attack that one might expect to see from Russian hackers" report, which then got blown up into "Russia hacked our election" through media hype, obfuscation, and repetition.
That was the entire source of the supposed moral outrage, and honestly it's entirely hypocritical when we consider how many foreign elections or even entire governments those same agencies have been manipulating with economic and military impunity. Maybe some are OK with corruption, as long as it is only *us* doing it. I'm not. Why should I have more fear from Russia's "influence" than those actively accepting bribes? Does domestic tyranny really come second to any conveniently imagined foreign scapegoat? And why should I believe the word of the same folk proven to (in their own leaked words) have maintained this duplicitous "public and private face"?
I am not anti-American, a secret spy, or a Republican by saying that Russian election talk is wasting our time and just makes us useful idiots to the Democratic-funded new "activism" which re-frames our problems with a couple quick historical rewrites and anti-Trump false nationalism. This country is getting split up into factions; remaining divided, those in power stay in power, while we blame everyone else. Yet fixing our governmental and electoral corruption would mean nobody has to worry about Russia. All this inflammatory Red Scare rhetoric simply protects our own domestic terrorists, who still claim without any evidence to be our "democratic representatives".
The media-hyped foreign redirection should give us deja vu, and frankly be obvious to any citizen remotely familiar with our history. Or even just to anyone who was actually involved in, or paying attention to the election. If you get your understanding of reality from the sponsored infotainment of American network's broadcasting, unfortunately you're woefully under- and mis-informed. Greatest of all ironies, to believe in this Russian nonsense is to be a conspiracy theorist of the highest order. Yet time and moneyed agendas have been manipulating to hide the underlying truth- that the greatest threat to our country are the politicians who incite war just to retain power.