Their activism project is what occupies a large part of their lives and that is, seeking to destroy Free Republic and the "PTB." They are obsessed with it. "They" are the denizens that inhabit the "Darkside," the various anti-freeping boards on Yahoo, Delphi, EZboard and elsewhere. The boards come and go and the people keep shuffling their various allegiances for or against each other, but they all agree on one thing, death to Free Republic. They are mostly people who were banned from here or left in disgust or in protest of our policies, or politics, or management style or whatever. Many of them left because of petty personality clashes or extreme personal hatred for the so-called "PTB", i.e., me, Brian, Connie, Bob J, BadJoe, etc. No need to pretend. You've been an active member of many of those boards.
As have many of the "PTB's" you name, as have many FReepers, current and ex. It's a place where exiled FReepers and current FReepers can find each other again. That's why I'm there. I post at RuR in particular primarily to keep in touch with Harry.
It would be a mistake to presume that everyone who posts to an "AFer" board is of one mind and out to destroy FR. That simply is not true.
OK, back into the mists go I until you summon me forth again... ;^)