General Discussion

It is not grassroots dem activists or normal DU posters (I don’t mean the OP). DUers post diatribes recorded and posted by influencers. It is an insight into what people see out there I suppose. It is an acquired taste and some people like it and some don’t. I don’t.

It used to confuse me tiIl I heard that word (“influencer) last year. This journalist I respect, Yasha Levin, sarcastically refers to himself as an influencer. He is not - a main feature of influencing as far as I can tell is playing on emotions as Trump himself does, but inverse herding sans any policies, beyond the vaguest bumper sticker stuff casually thrown on top.

Yasha isn’t one. He just wouldn’t be hired by say the NYT because he is honest. It amps up herding based on fear and anger. Its just another feature of this alarming overpopulated Idiocracy driven by mob dynamics.

In fairness, none of us (or me anyway..though I bet it’s totally not just me) can quite identify it when it is our Achilles’ heels re irrationality.

No actually it is worse than that. The thing is even when you can, you feel screwed over and mutinous enough to continue being irrational out of spite. Or you combat it with humor which can easily turn nihilistic subtly in this cynical “oh it all sucks way”. Humanism and heart and brain are the only fix.


Last week with the Swalwell for instance, its a dynamic that would play on this ineradicable male fear of “false allegations!!!”

I cannot tell which is more absurd- abortion as birth control or false allegations as this female hobby and an “easy money” route. Actually the latter. At the end of the day from what I have heard from women who have had them abortions aren’t that painful, though obviously no woman’s preferred method of contraception. But allegations of sexual harassment are painful enough processed by a decent HR. This internet shit is so much worse.

Women would not ever choose the internet’s MeToo dynamics if decent systems existed that did not penalize women in callous ways.