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serving corporate greed? Sounds like a pretty unhealthy place to drop into. 
I wonder how many of them are real people and how many are Russian trolls and bots.
in 2015-16 and participating in normal conversations, but sought refuge there when they fled DU. Turns out people can become increasingly extremist, and so can whole groups, reinforcing each other's spiral farther and farther from reality. Fascinating, and shocking, and I've often wished I could read a paper on it to understand what I was watching. But it's why I take a peek in now and then, briefly and then right back out because it strikes me as unhealthy as hell.
Back then Sanders was telling them the kind of things Trump tells his followers, though, constant lies about corrupt corporatist Democrats stealing his elections, and of course they found endless political sewage and conspiracist nonsense on the web to bring back and marinate in. Hillary Derangement Syndrome was severe. When Sanders conceded, many were enraged at his betrayal, but some decided Hillary must have kidnapped the poor, sweet man and had him beaten into submission or threatened to murder his grandchildren.
These days Hillary is apparently into making giant "blood money" profits. 
Wherever she goes around the world pretending to do good, evil happens. It's not at all all about her, though. They seem familiar with various dastardly activities of whichever Democrats are in the news.
They don't all sound crazy on my very brief visits, but they hang together and I no longer think most will be coming back, any more than Trump's victims will. They know what they know. I'm sure your guess is right that Russia also cultivated and has continued to exploit them all along, both here and there. Why wouldn't they? And helpful bots are of course effectively free once set up.
Trump as a wake-up call for rationality and good sense. 
And a spotlight on how so many among us are drawn to bad leaders who can activate an unsuspected worst in them.
I'm segueing off here a bit (not calling the crowd at JR Nazis, just extremists untethered from truth, though posts suggest many could be drawn either way depending on the leader). But your comment reminds me of an article I was reading recently from the 1940s about people, awakened by the horrors in Europe, musing "who's the Nazi?" as they looked around and imagined the Third Reich coming to America. Once you knew what to look for,... To a far lesser degree now, and I'm also thinking of the Covid holocaust so many have been spreading out of political zealotry and spite, we are more aware now. And need to be.
Cheery topic for a sunny morning. A grocery clerk I'm sure as can be voted for Trump twice startled me by telling me to "stay safe" the other day. Something new.
We often get a much more simplified picture of how things were in the U.S. in the thirties and forties. We had fascists, communists, anarchists, and anti-war protesters, but books and movies tend to paint a much more unified vision of Americans during that time. The biggest difference between now and then is television and the Internet. Rumors and extremist conspiracy theories didn't spread as quickly, but they did exist. Oh yes, I can picture people speculating on "who's the Nazi?"
We tend to think so much of what we're witnessing is unprecedented, but I don't think it is. It is bigger and better publicized, but irrationality, paranoia, and outrageous conspiracy theories have been with us throughout our history. Perhaps it comes in cycles and this cycle is intensified by a truly whacky president and a once in a century pandemic.
It is sunny and lovely here as well. Last year on this day we had several inches of snow, so I'm grateful for sunshine and NO snow! After this past year, its best to count our blessings wherever we can find them!
"Stay safe!"
informed public, a golden age of knowledge. and it has. Guessing political scientists and psychologists weren't all that surprised at the rest, just fascinated and appalled observers. Great era to be them. If only someone paid for mental healthcare to rescue people trapped in toxic bubbles, it'd be a golden age for counselors also.
I've always assumed most of it was excessive anxiety from galloping change exploited and cultivated by opportunistic scoundrels telling them what they want -- the name of an enemy to attack in a group to stop it. Just wish the target tp be taken out wasn't always evil liberal Democrats.
the constant access to information is a dream come true, but obviously that isn't the case for everyone. More like a nightmare I suppose. I guess the people who read the tabloid newspapers and watched Jerry Springer in the nineties, just got online and found even more outrageous crap. Like being addicted to junk food, you just can never get enough.
It really sucks that Democrats have been demonized to such an extreme. The brainwashed really believe we are the devil incarnate. Really strange, as Democrats tend to be the ones who care about other people. Sigh.
Have a good night! 
Not ready to make her Speaker yet (
), but the Party should allow her more air time and exposure.
But when she does it, she's "shooting off her mouth without thinking".
I . . . . Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Great! She needs to really lay down the facts...
