[Bellows]

I believe the Dems hire armies of internet posters to give the impression of crowds of support where there is only contempt and indifference.

Do you believe that because you have facts to support it, or simply because you want it to be true and therefore consider it plausible? It is equally plausible that Republicans do exactly the same thing for exactly the same reason. But you don't want that to be true, so you probably consider it implausible.

[Mamzelle]

I have tried to explain how I know, and end up sounding boastful. So I'll try to do so, again. I expect to fail, and be accused of conceit.

I read a great deal. I have read a great deal. I have edited a lot of other peoples' written work over a lifetime.

If you do that, you develop something like an ear for music or an eye that recognizes faces, and troll writings have a particular sound. For one thing, they are often infantile, of poor vocabulary, are unimaginative. In a word, boring.

And I have read enough on the internet to pick out what I am convinced are the writings of bored people just posting for the sake of it--and I believe it is for money, and probably not much money.

Sometime sift through the archives of David Horowitz's research on Frontpagemag.com an you will see that the oligarchs who have tens of billions of dollars would think about as much of a few millions on shill posters as you and I would think of latte money.