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In reply to the discussion: DO NOT BE FOOLED!!! [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)especially with your last comment, although I'll speak to the activities of the corporate brigade overall and not just the nasty OP of this particular poster. I can't fathom that *anyone* would believe the kinds of posts we are seeing are meant to help the actual Democratic candidates in any way. I've always kind of assumed that the goal, instead, was to divert from the predatory corporate policies, disrupt/smear, and generally make liberal discussion places unpleasant so as to drive people away...sort of like pepper spray at Occupy rallies.
But lately the outright, deliberate, even ostentatious obnoxiousness I see, not only here but on other sites across the internet, has me thinking that there's another goal. I honestly believe they are trying to alienate Democrats and depress Democratic turnout for 2016. I have posted this several times, so maybe you've seen it already, but I'll put a link here just in case: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6261723
We live in a propaganda state now, and we are constantly manipulated. I really think party is a tool now used to manipulate us, too. We are taught, heckled, even blackmailed to identify with it, but the oligarchs own both and laugh all the way to the bank.