Reply #2: I'm starting to realize it's all just attempted manipulation; they probably know it makes no sense. [View All]

[LoZoccolo]

People want to believe that they can control the government by sitting on the computer complaining, and the complaints are designed to try to convince the administration of something, except that the administration probably doesn't read DU very much. Still they carry on with this theater and distract the rest of us with it; I've been trying not to get too distracted by it anymore.

On the other hand, there's a very hard core of people who do this kind of thing away from DU (as you posted before) who may be more serious about it. They might be posturing to each other, but they might actually be under this weird impression that that kind of catastrophic politics works; if it worked then why didn't the 2000 election with Nader bring about what they wanted in 2004 or 2008?

The funny part is that every now and then I'll post something about how politics actually works, and present some kind of positive alternative or different strategic direction to this stuff that goes on here, and it will sink. I suspect the reason why is that they know it's more effective than what they are doing, but they weren't really looking for an alternative because that would require work.