"That woman is evil" 2.0 Version?

[FM123]

All throughout the 2016 election, the Russian hackers exploited the Democrat's mixed feelings toward Hillary by flooding the internet with bots and negative stories designed to turn us against her. We came to find out later that so much of what looked like opposition from the Bernie camp was actually manufactured by the Russians trying to manipulate us. Lately, I am seeing the same kind of "super hatred" toward Nancy Pelosi. While there are legitimate concerns and genuine feelings of disappointment that should be addressed - how do we know that this recent hate surge isn't being manufactured by them as well? Finding our weakness then using it against us with the divide and conquer technique is Russia's best event, after all. They did it with Hillary, are they doing it with Nancy too? I want to know what you think...

[MattP]

1. I heard someone on msnbc say Pelosi won't take responsibility just like Hillary

[MineralMan]

2. A lot of the attacks on Democrats in general are not actually

coming from the left. Instead, they are coming from people pretending to be on the left for whatever purposes they might have. Some are coming from those so far on the left that they believe government should be torn down completely. Their claims that a "true progressive" would have won in Georgia's sixth congressional district are completely bogus.

Had one of those "true progressives" run on a "truly progressive" platform, the Republicans would have won that race by double digits, not by less than 4 percentage points.

So, there are right-wingers pretending to be leftists. There are libertarians pretending to be leftists. There are freaking anarchists pretending to be leftists. We should listen to none of them. We should jump into the trenches are start working our asses off for every Democratic candidate running for any office.

That is how we will win. No other path to victory exists, in my opinion.

[spooky3]

3. The only thing I disagree with is "finding our weakness."

Both Clinton and Pelosi are strong, intelligent, accomplished women. What the attackers did was create a boogeywoman that Republicans and fence sitters could hate, and exploit that. They took a strength and made it a weakness, and too many people fell for that. Years of unsubstantiated attacks then enabled certain Dems to perceive a vague sense of "baggage." Now we have some Dems trying to create a job description that Pelosi does not have, and evaluate her negatively against it.

Dems need to say, "I proudly stand with Pelosi to fight for a better health care system, better pay and working conditions for Americans" etc. We have the issues on our side and need to be clear about it!!!!

[nini]

4. Yep

It's disgusting

[Amaryllis]

5. You are right on. Warner has said numerous times on Senate Intel hearings that everything

the Russians did, they are still doing and that is one reason why it is so critical to find out what they did/are doing so we can stop it. And we know that one of their primary motives was to sow discord. Divided we fall...and all that.