"Elections should end at our shores" a good principle Don but one which has never been observed.....the CIA have been complicit in the rigging of more elections, in more countries than I can remember.
President Obama has seen fit to intervene personally in at least two of the latest UK elections.

The allegations that the hacking of DPC files was ordered by the Russian state are simply allegations.....no proof of their voracity has been offered.

You remarks regarding the closing of threads being exclusively the fault of "right wing members" is simply not true, as many threads in which I had taken part have had to be closed by admin because of the vicious personal abuse from "liberal" members. If you like I can reprint some of it, those who are still contributing here will not be proud of their behaviour.