There's the concept of "plausible deniability", which we see on display nearly everyday by a certain member of the US federal government. Indeed, it happened v

There's the concept of "plausible deniability", which we see on display nearly everyday by a certain member of the US federal government. Indeed, it happened very recently over the weekend, when his lawyer claimed it was he who was tweeting, not his boss! Furthermore, we've seen this regularly from his twitter account: Sometimes the tweets will be word salad only slightly more intelligible than "covfefe", other times they'll be much more intelligible (though not necessarily intelligent). Which has always led me to wonder: Who is actually tweeting? Is it the person we ostensibly voted for? Or someone completely different? Because to me, when a person's words high in government are supposed to be their words, they have a inherent responsibility to them. If someone else is using their account to blurt out ideas which could have world changing repercussions, and that someone isn't the person the electorate chose to represent them, then we don't have a true representative government system any longer. At that point, we might as well not have elections any longer, because the people we are trusting to govern aren't doing their damn job. In fact, they are abdicating that responsibility, and one should think that such an act would be subject to sanctions, up to and including being treated as a treasonous act. This goes well beyond "plausible deniability", in my opinion. In the case of national government, it is something that can easily lead to war, due to misunderstanding or just malfeasance on the part of bad actors. That this is being seen as normal, that "everyone else is doing it", in any other time would have the populace at their doorsteps with pitchforks and torches, demanding change. The fact that this isn't happening, despite everything we has seen, continue to see, and will see in the future, is both maddening and disheartening. We are in dangerous times. This may sound like hyperbole, but it isn't. I'm not the only one who thinks or believes this. Many are attempting to scream it from the rooftops, but are derided as being overly dramatic, or crazy, or any number of other epithets. Others continue with the whole "let's way and see, 2018 will be the year, or 2020 - things will change". I fear that we don't have long to stop this madness if something isn't done soon.