Originally posted by Eversor:
That's what everyone does. That's your critique of the Democrats vis-a-vis Russia...
Every political position must exist in context, as an alternative to or criticism of some other position. That is what everybody does by necessity. Not everybody scapegoats.
Socialists verbally abuse capitalists, for example, but I don’t consider it scapegoating. They attack capitalists because they reject capitalism, a condition for which the existence of capitalists is both necessary and sufficient.
Similarly, Democrats accuse the Russian government of specific crimes. At the end of the day, the last US presidential election was decided by just 79,000 votes in swing states - a perfectly plausible number of voters who might have been manipulated by Russian propaganda. While some people have gone overboard with accusations of astroturfing, it’s usually a mode in which Russians have been known to operate. What is the difference between scapegoating and reasonable suspicion? Why is this not legitimate fear and concern?
And regardless of your specific opinion about the above, I doubt you seriously consider them a worse sort of behaviour than fascist ethnocentrism.