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This has been going on for decades. Perhaps the difference now, is that networked gangs of self-described 'progressives' have been organizing attack mobs on so
by theorique 12y ago
This has been going on for decades.
Perhaps the difference now, is that networked gangs of self-described 'progressives' have been organizing attack mobs on social media, with the targets not just 'evil right wingers', but liberals like Chait who do not pay sufficient homage to the tenets of political correctness.
And who defines what the tenets are? Let's just say that if you have to ask, it probably isn't you.
- DownvoteMeToWin 12y agoIndeed. This mass behavior has the interface of Mao's Culture Revolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution) while serving the purpose of a Stalinist purge. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge) But why? Why now? Well, #hilary2016 is obvious, but more insidiously, after unlimited funding for super PACs became the de facto unit of all political engagement, everyone is organizing a massive push to counter people like Adelson and the Kochs. And when you form the kinds of mass coordinations that only billions of dollars can afford, (George Soros put in $33 million this year so far) you cannot have dissent in the slightest or your ROI gets impacted.