{"id":130712,"date":"2019-10-27T17:01:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T21:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=130712"},"modified":"2019-10-27T17:06:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T21:06:32","slug":"pelosi-goes-off-the-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=130712","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi goes off the rails!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lecturing the \u2018peons\u2019? Pelosi mocked for blaming voter disenchantment on outside forces who \u2018poisoned\u2019 social media<\/h2>\n

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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) addresses the audience during the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) 2019 Women’s Leadership Forum in Washington, U.S. October 17, 2019. \u00a9 REUTERS\/Carlos Jasso<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

RT.com<\/p>\n

Dark forces have tainted social media and turned optimistic, hopeful, Americans into unhappy voters, Nancy Pelosi has conveniently claimed. The House Speaker\u2019s explanation for the current political mood did not impress Twitter.<\/p>\n

The senior Democratic lawmaker told a crowd in Iowa on Saturday that any negative or ambivalent feelings about US politics likely stems from actors\u00a0\u201cinside and outside\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the country who have\u00a0\u201cpoisoned\u201d<\/em>\u00a0social media.<\/p>\n

[They use social media to] undermine the mindset of what is America. America is optimistic, entrepreneurial, about the American dream and things can be better. And what they do with their poison is discourage \u2013 \u2018nobody is paying attention to you, it\u2019s no use for you to vote.\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paraphrasing Pelosi\u2019s rather disjointed remarks, journalist Michael Tracey noted:\u00a0\u201cSo if social media makes you pessimistic, you are the victim of \u2018interference\u2019 rather than a critical thinker.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Pelosi warns that the "poisoning" of social media is undermining "the mindset of what is America," which is "optimistic and entrepreneurial." So if social media makes you pessimistic, you are the victim of "interference" rather than a critical thinker https:\/\/t.co\/SQc38imzRZ<\/a><\/p>\n

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) October 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n