-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/2017 08:01 AM, Marina Brown wrote:

Question - why are today's trolls always nazis or various forms of fascist ? It would be nice to have left wing trolls. ...not the garden variety liberal troll but some real leftie trolls.

THAT would be fun ;-)

Ideologically pure followers of the Right and Left both troll non-stop; first themselves, then others. The differences between political leaders on the Right and Left are matters of style, not substance. In Identity Politics game, the Left's victory condition is to prove oneself morally superior, while the Right's victory condition is to stomp someone else down. This seems to fit with the observed behavior of inmates of the Left and Right ideologies, consistent with the personality types targeted by political indoctrination campaigns: The Left package is marketed to people with a strong predisposition to confidence and cooperation in social contexts, the Right package is marketed to those with a predisposition for fear and the use of force in social contexts. About ten years ago there were some press notices of psychological studies confirming a model where Liberal and Conservative "political preferences" are strongly consistent with baseline preconscious emotional and cognitive predispositions as per above. This evaluation of Left and Right Identity Politics may not make sense to some people, especially those who have been sold the Left/Right conflict as some kind of "ideological battle" based on the validity or utility of political and economic theories, and believe the outcomes of such debates in the public sphere affect State political and economic policy. But in a context where acquiring and preserving power for its own sake by any means necessary is the only "ideology" of an economic ruling class, the Left/Right divide is more a matter of style than substance: A basis for popularity contests among political representatives of ruling class factions whose action agendas overlap by 90% or more, in a context where public policy always serves the entire ruling class at everyone else's expense. I call Left/Right Identity Politics a "divide the conquered" strategy. :o/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYuFYUAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqdagH/0VYeGn9UKXmDISCRGg3RKTJ NMPY8xpPGN0u9EZFe4LMDyOXia91oC9Cfj+BFmtvvAqXcBT98TudZPxjn2/5o7xW Oih1TqdaKJ//NTEofb2F2TfhlmL5eGOV1mBaCp8nwrjg0gSJfSLV6a8roCNjFgP4 yuzLifb9oWc9sdOnsK0WHaCf3HjSHepuvYjqAxyuODy+K+OnVS5D8A/cDEEI3GqH OhMmnQKwDDMmLX31PXLaTkdMv0tV3YHS82au9U0tm+I7ru/BjxTn8lZq3KamsSdm 9vPwjEqBgAViNj4zHZdXgbFXdFPjAoL0k7ZRe2d55L+Kfqr3FU8HDx+YG0FtU/I= =IkyL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----