Mocking old folks who are worried about paying their bills?

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70. That was a stunning post you just made.

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You'd like to represent posts mocking YOUR ONLINE GROUP or TEAM as posts mocking seniors, the poor, the needy, the hungry....

You tell us these posts mock the poor, or seniors, or the needy. No. They're mocking your online group, the self-appointed advocates...They're not laughing at needy seniors. They're laughing at your group. Not because you're made up of or arguing on behalf of seniors, or the poor, or the needy, but because you're behaving in a ridiculous manner on this board. You conflate the two because you foolishly believe your own rhetoric. It's a ridiculous claim either way.

That was horrifying, in fact.

Perhaps it is natural, if your own primary mission is advocating for the interests of a political "team," to assume that anyone responding to you is also posting merely as part of an opposing "online group or team".....to assume that the fear and horror and anger that people express to you over these needless assaults is just "team rhetoric" like your own and could not possibly be genuine or related to their own or other actual human lives in any way.

The reflexive and facile certainty with which you announce this imaginary distinction between people talking to you at DU and "ACTUAL" Americans who would be affected by the Chained CPI says volumes about how you view these discussions and the level of seriousness you attribute to them.

DU was a discussion board for human beings on the internet before the corporate defense talking points arrived. We are people, and the vast majority of us are not paid to be here. We are out here living the policies that you so blithely assume are just rhetorical games for us. Our lives, our families' lives, are being assaulted by the one percent and their politicians who apparently also see us as just some abstract advocacy group to be defeated with clever rhetoric.

You just drove home for all of DU the problem Cal has been underscoring here, better than Cal or I or anyone else ever could. I don't think I've ever seen a post more revealing of why Americans are mad as hell at what is happening to our country and our government and our media. It is all a game of Monopoly to the one percent. The propaganda is a game. The rhetoric is a game. And the voices of Americans trying desperately to be heard by the ones wielding the ax are dismissed as just talking point scrimmages to be managed and gleefully defeated with rhetoric.

I have written several times this week that the Third Way mask has come off to reveal what corporate-style empathy and morality and compassion really look like. Your post here takes the cake.