Good article, and clarifying. They have been astroturfingnforndecadrs, if not more. My father has a book published by HUAC in the 1950s called “100 Things You Should Know About Communism”, and that book described a communist technique to take over a meeting: They would send 4 people, and the four would sit near the four corners of the room, and when one would say something the others would echo it. That way it seemed as though support for the Communists’ position was spread throughout the group. Power is what your opponent thinks you have.
“....That way it seemed as though support for the Communists’ position was spread throughout the group. Power is what your opponent thinks you have...”
It has always been the vocal few, and a mass of idiots..
Think; Oct 1917