Remember Clint Watts' Counterintelligence Advice On Russia When Reacting To Internal Polls

[ancianita]

Right now we are in the troll poll zone.

In this zone, troll polls divide within party lines and unite across ideologies. They do it early so that their candidate can play on those divisions during the General Election debates.

Watts, head of FBI counterintel, has told us:

The Kremlin wants Americans on both sides of the political spectrum -- far right, far left -- to use the same talking points even if they have drastically different ideologies:
-- America should withdraw from foreign battlefields and global markets, and
-- democracy is a corrupt sham that can’t be trusted.

How will they do it? The Kremlin will simply amplify the readily available American-made content to further divide the U.S. electorate.

Putin’s propagandists will employ the “Five R’s” on American conservatives:

-- remind Americans of their missteps,
-- repost (reshare & retweet) organic American content supporting Russia’s agenda,
-- repurpose vitriolic American narratives to manipulate unwitting audiences,
-- repeat White House attacks on other Americans (women, blacks, Latinos) and
-- route conspiracies and alternative content through fringe populist information sources (even self-defined 'liberal' sources)

To sow doubt within political parties is what divisive troll polls do. Look at the sampling, data, interpretations in their reports, and decide who gains.

It's not Democrats. It's never Democrats who gain.

Unity is not uniformity. Support is unity in spite of disagreements. Dissent is not anti-party, anti-American or unpatriotic when grounded in the realities of now and history.

We must be careful how we promote any polls before the Democratic National Convention.

[empedocles]

1. Good

[saidsimplesimon]

2. "Don't Feed the Trolls"

that is a comment I received early in my posting history. Still good advise as is the importance of Unity to elect the winner of our Primary.