Pro Palestine Protestors Block Philadelphia Pride Parade

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35. It used to take some time but now seems to work pretty much overnight.

Anti-Democratic propaganda cult playing on emotions and disinformation targeting certain people susceptible to it. By 2014 I'd lost friends who'd been liberals but went over to the dark side of anti-America anti-West pro-Russia something about capitalism. I never thought it would reach pro-religious fundamentalist terrorist support levels, yet here we are.

Writer Steve Almond writes about a young progressive man who'd impressed him with his knowledge of economic injustice, but then changed.

"Jon professed disgust for Trump. But his Facebook page was filled with links to articles vilifying Clinton. ... Taken together, Jon's posts composed a kind of ideologically incoherent gumbo in which the main ingredients were disinformation, distrust of authority in general, and Clinton in particular -- the same stew Trump dished out at his rallies daily.

"I recognized Jon's rhetorical posture from my own years as a Ralph Nader crusader. He wanted to vote for someone he believed in, not the lesser of two evils. But his logic was that of a fatalist: the system was broken beyond repair, policies were empty promises ... which breeds apathy and depressed turnout. 'A vote for Hillary is a vote for Trump,' Jon wrote a few weeks before the election, which is how you know he isn't a person of color, or a Muslim, or an immigrant. ... Over the course of single campaign, his immersion in internet culture had transformed him from an American idealist into a Russian bot."