It is now apparent to everyone except Trump and his disciples that Russia is doing all it can
to further divide Americans, setting neighbor against neighbor and exploiting pre-existing tensions wherever they can. In these efforts, they sometimes impersonate fascists and sometimes anti-fascists. One minute they post as liberals; the next as conservatives. Their goal is not to favor any one political party, ideology or race. Their goal is to so disrupt this nation's government that we, the people, lose faith in it.
I am reasonably certain that they have not ignored DU. When we consider the scope of their efforts and their success so far, why should we believe that ANY accessible internet platform is not being seeded with posts intended to offend, anger and frighten us?
The antidote to this trollery must be administered by the users of this board and, more broadly, all social media because we have a government that is complicit in the deception. We need to think more critically and we need to always be mindful of the important difference between "facts"---remember those?---and "opinions".
Speakers---be they pols or pundits---who use phrases like "many people are saying" or "everybody knows" as authority for ANYTHING should be ignored. And, we should increase our use of one of the best political rejoinders ever devised: "BULLSHIT!"
Finally, we need to be a little kinder to each other; a little more respectful, because those who would divide us can't do it by themselves. They are counting on our prejudice, our resentment and our anger to accomplish their purpose.
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