Gawd, I hate wing nuts...

[MrScorpio]

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[Skittles]

1. excellent response, MrScoprio

yes ineed

[wryter2000]

2. Well done!

[Hortensis]

3. Same here. I think her response is pretty perfect.

Both LW & RW NJs have great deal that's very unadmirable in common, though, and I despise them all for the massive dishonesty and hypocrisy required to maintain extremist beliefs.

If politicians are going to hang with LWNJs, as Ocasio has been, they need to be prepared to draw some NJ fleas. And she was in this case.

[JonLP24]

4. LWNJs?

I'm sorry but I see hypocrisy everywhere when it comes to politics. The left will be angry over something Bush did, Obama continues certain policy they defend the policy. Right wing didn't care Colin Powell used a private server were angry Hillary Clinton did. Hypocrisy is one of the things that sickens me when it comes to politics

The person was a LaRouche right winger plant. LWNJs? I can't believe I'm reading that here.

[Hortensis]

6. Many LWNJs were proud to refuse to vote for Democrats and

busily encouraged others not to. Remember the "Dexit" movement after Hillary became our nominee, just for instance?

Ocasio and Sanders have both hired and empowered some of these LWNJ creeps (and in her case later fired some), instead of consigning them to the oblivion they so deserve. So when her name comes up associated with NJ behavior you shouldn't be surprised to see LWNJs also mentioned.

One standard for all. I'm still waiting to see that she's left all those behind for good.

[JonLP24]

8. Her name is not associated with NJ behavior

That is just playing into right wing stereotypes of her. Hillary Clinton had some very toxic people on her staff that have been relitigating the 2016 election ever since the general election.

You want their votes but you also want to consign them to oblivion. I voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election but that isn't good enough for the haters.

What upsets me most about this is I was an Obama supporter and I remember the Pumas who 20-25% of Clinton voters voted for Mccain.

Myself I voted for Obama in 2008 and Hillary Clinton in 2016.

[hedda_foil]

5. LaRouchies aren't left wing or right wing. They're sui generis nutjobs

[Hortensis]

7. Yes, but maybe more like BOTH far right and far left?

Refusing to identify reliably one or the other? Very doable given how much extremists from both sides have in common. Hitler and Mussolini both became archconservative fascist dictators, but their pasts morphed a great deal of far left ideology into their signature mixes.

And back in the 1920s and '30s far-right fascist movements and far-left socialist groups were all busy trying to woo the same people from the pool of those prone to extremism. As is happening all over the planet again today.