I found the article Bernie Sanders’ anti-political correctness rant proves the left is learning the wrong lessons from Trump.

Cosigning Trump’s attack on political correctness validates the bigotry of his campaign.

What this article really proves is that the authors of articles like this are the ones learning the wrong lessons. They focus on what drives them away from Trump and they misjudge what attracts many people to Trump.

My response to a post by a pseudo-leftie exemplifies what I mean. His post ponted to the New York Daily News article KING: There’s a huge education level drop-off with the Trump cabinet picks.

Donald Trump will be the first President of the United States in 25 years to not have a graduate degree of any kind.

My response to my pseudo-leftie friend was the following:

And what did we get from the educated people that Obama appointed? Or the ones Bill Clinton appointed? What about the Best and the Brightest that David Halberstam wrote about giving us the Viet Nam mess?

And you wonder why the “least educated” scoff at your claims to a ‘superior education”?

Will the Democratic Party ever be willing to look itself in the mirror? I have seen no evidence, and you are certainly giving a fine display of lack of evidence here.

Now you see why I do not win friends and I do not influence people. What gets into me sometimes?

Naked Capitalism has the article NBC’s Denver Affiliate 9News Apologies on Air to Naked Capitalism.

Thanks so much to the speedy action of the members of the commentariat yesterday. We got an apology from NBC 9 News in Denver for a skit they had put up meant to educate readers about the evils of “fake news”. However, they made Naked Capitalism into an object lesson:

You may have to go to Denver, but apparently you can find a modicum of journalistic integrity in some isolated spots in America.

YouTube has the video RT Accounts from Aleppo Residents.

The fake news reports from Aleppo have been stirring emotions at the latest UN Security Council meeting, with diplomats echoing various claims. RT’s correspondent Lizzie Phelan in Aleppo gauged reaction from locals to the claims of genocide and massacres taking place in the city.

I have also found the RT story As thousands flee E. Aleppo, RT hears stories of those trapped there for years (VIDEO).

Mohamad has come from western Aleppo to pick up Ibrahim, his brother, who was trapped in Sheikh Sa’eed district.

“Four years ago he couldn’t escape, but I did. He was stuck there and thank God we are reunited now,” he tells our crew, meeting for the first time his two youngest nephews who were born in eastern Aleppo.

Oddly, this video shows the same type of buses that are being filled with people who sought refuge whereas they are shown by our press as leaving a pickup site completely empty.

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Of course, these RT reports should be rejected out of hand because they are reported by a Russian news medium. We trust our news media to never lie to us. They and Colin Powell can’t help it that they believed the stories the government told them about the WMD in Iraq before they stampeded us into that war. Our media has at least learned from their mistakes, and is reporting all sides of the conflict in Syria including this one.

And we know that our media’s reports of the Russian hacking of our election is the God’s honest truth.
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Robert Reich has posted Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda on his Facebook page.

PC World has the article Why Russian hackers, not a lone wolf, were likely behind the DNC breach. Here is the “proof” I have been waiting for.

The breach began as far back as last summer and involved malware previously used by two hacking groups known as Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear.

Both are thought to be based in Russia and considered among the best hacking teams in the world, said Michael Buratowski, a senior vice president with Fidelis Cybersecurity, which was called in to examine the malware in the DNC attack.

Wow, this really does it for me “thought to be based in Russia”. Is that definitive or what?

Do I really have to put in the <sarcasm></sarcasm> flags, or can you figure this out for yourselves?

To be sure, there is more in the article than what I emphasized. You can read it yourself to see if you think it is convincing enough to go to war over.

To dig shallower, you can refer to the Info World article Politics bog down US response to election hacks. This article was what led me to the PC World article.

Counter Punch has the article The Democrats “Russia Hacking” Campaign is Political Suicide. Talking abou a New York Times article, Mike Whitney had the following to say:

If there was a Pulitzer Prize for fearmongering innuendo or spurious accusations, the Times would win it hands-down. As it happens, readers have to delve much deeper into the article to find this shocking disclaimer:

“But the campaign officials acknowledge that they have no evidence. The Trump campaign has dismissed the accusations about Russia as a deliberate distraction…..”

“No evidence”???

They got nothing. NOTHING!

I’ll be back shortly after I find the link to the NYT article.

The New York Times article Spy Agency Consensus Grows That Russia Hacked D.N.C. By DAVID E. SANGER and ERIC SCHMITT JULY 26, 2016. (Notice that this is not a new article.)

I don’t find the quote exactly in the context as Mike Whitney implied. This is what I found:

Campaign officials have also suggested that Mr. Putin could be trying to tilt the election to Donald J. Trump. But they acknowledge that they have no evidence.

Asked on Tuesday at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia whether “there’s more to the Trump/Russian relationship that hasn’t come out,” John Podesta, the Clinton campaign chairman, said, “Well, he certainly has a bromance with Mr. Putin, so I don’t know.”

Zero Hedge has the article Former UK Ambassador Blasts “CIA’s Blatant Lies”, Shows “A Little Simple Logic Destroys Their Claims”.

The Kremlin has rejected the hacking accusations, while the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has previously said the DNC leaks were not linked to Russia. A second senior official cited by the Washington Post conceded that intelligence agencies did not have specific proof that the Kremlin was “directing” the hackers, who were said to be one step removed from the Russian government.

Craig Murray, the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, who is a close associate of Assange, called the CIA claims “bullshit”, adding: “They are absolutely making it up.”

“I know who leaked them,” Murray said. “I’ve met the person who leaked them, and they are certainly not Russian and it’s an insider. It’s a leak, not a hack; the two are different things.

Perhaps the CIA is telling these lies in the hopes that the insider leaker will reveal his or her identity.

Ted-Ed has the video How did Hitler rise to power? by Alex Gendler and Anthony Hazard.

Decades after the fall of the Third Reich, it feels impossible to understand how Adolf Hitler, the tyrant who orchestrated one of the largest genocides in human history, could ever have risen to power in a democratic country. So how did it happen, and could it happen again? Alex Gendler and Anthony Hazard dive into the history and circumstances that allowed Hitler to become Führer of Germany.

I can’t attest to the detailed historical accuracy of everything in this video, but it sounds about right from what I have learned from other sources. There are a few details that add to what I already knew.

Policy.Mic has the article Blaming millennials for Trump — 99 problems but the kids ain’t one – by Scott Goodstein.

While I’m not a millennial, my firm Revolution Messaging specializes in youth voter outreach and helped Bernie Sanders win a record share of youth votes in the primary — more than Clinton and Trump combined. I also ran social media, developed young voter materials and assisted with artist and musician outreach for President Obama’s record-breaking 2008 campaign. So I was surprised, and very concerned, when Clinton’s campaign and their independent coalition leaders all brushed me off. Her team seemed to care little about learning from Sen. Sanders’ successes and about how his tactics could be used in the general election.
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The campaign’s arrogance extended to their digital advertising strategy as well. Throughout the primary, our team was shocked that the Clinton campaign failed to match Bernie Sanders’ digital advertising efforts.
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Let’s be honest, social network posting and commenting is the modern day version of knocking on your friend’s door. It is the medium that allows a campaign to begin a conversation with undecided voters, bring them into the discussion and move them up a ladder of engagement. Hillary’s outreach efforts should have been focused on establishing real connections wherever they may be, and for young voters, those connections are online.
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If Democrats want to get serious about reaching millennials for the 2018 midterms and the 2020 election, we will need to learn lessons from 2016, and quickly. Today’s generation of young voters are civic-minded and passionate, and they are the future of the Democratic party and the progressive movement. It’s time we started treating them like it.

Given recent pronouncements by the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Harry Reid, I have full confidence that the Democratic Party leaders have learned nothing, and will learn nothing. They can be defeated even more soundly in 2018. Let us figure out what we want to replace them with. This time no snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Courage of our convictions is what we need.