“And every one of them are being used by the Democrats.”
They’re also extremely popular on Free Republic these days. Far too many posters will chime in on certain topics as if someone blew a dog whistle. And instead of responding to the topic they distract from it, try to start a new discussion, they attack the person posting it, they attack whoever wrote it, and etc.
Jim Robinson asked for less propaganda on FR and I would hope to support his wish by making more people aware of propaganda techniques and in the other post today I also put up a reference on Logical Fallacies.
I’ve been on FR since 2009 and would love to see the level of discussion here go back to what it used to be.
I would also like to see more elevated discussion but many great members were run off during presidential elections and primaries the last decade or so and they aren’t coming back.
This election cycle the Desanctimonious people and the Orange Man bad people are at each other’s throats. Some are disrupters but it will have the same affect regardless.