Bernie

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86. "let's keep defining the environment as a jobs and health issue"

Simply very good, aspirational sense, as is the need to weave our social-environmental organism back together. The midterms suggest a majority of people feel that way and give great reason for hope. We were divided and we fell, but it looks like villainy on the right is finally being recognized and causing us to start reforming the stable center democracies must have to survive.

Which unfortunately brings us to the hitting of wedge issues again, and again, and again. This and other social media sites are crawling with malicious agents, both paid and unpaid, professional and amateur. Most, not all, eventually get identified and banned, and then come back.

Part of accomplishing what we must is learning to suspect when we are being maliciously manipulated -- with the object being to keep Republicans in power. Maybe go count the number of Sanders posts since Tuesday alone, and other emotional topics.

Although individual posters are often innocent victims of manipulation, it's no coincidence that this site is being flooded, before the counts are even completed and we know all we've gained, with distraction from being proud and understanding all this election can mean for us. It's huge.

We should be proud of our enemies -- having them says all the right things about us, and we need to concentrate on what they're up to. Our nation must remain broken if they are to succeed, and that is what this is about.