Thanks for both your responses. It’s unfortunate that discourse on FR has deteriorated so much. Respectful disagreement is fine, but so many of these threads are nothing but flame bait these days.
Many of the posters, including some who get a little too “worked up”, are sincere and merely frustrated. However, there is a subgroup who know exactly what they’re doing and are only interesting in inflaming emotions and precluding or forestalling serious debate. They’re doing the online equivalent of Saul Alinsky’s “jamming” strategy.
This is true.
Most of my posts are on threads countering various trolls
and the 3rd Party loons.
They think posting lies often enough some will believe it.
Having delt face to face in counter rallies vs Code Pinkos, pro Hamas, and PaulBots - They all have the same talking points.