Are pro-Bernie Twitter Trolls for the Democrats Being Paid?

Put on your tinfoil hats. A mathematical thought experiment.

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***Part III of a three-part series***

Part I:

Part II:

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So let’s play a game.

Suppose you buy a thousand trolls to operate at least three Twitter accounts each for a salary of $100/week, provided that they maintain a certain quota of tweets per week and stick to your instruction manual.

You require that they sign a non-disclosure agreement.

You have these trolls use progressive leftist branding, with catchall signals like Democratic Socialists of America roses 🌹, Medicare-for-All profile pics ➕, half-satirical banners like PROMINENT TWITTER ANARCHO-COMMUNIST, and self-deprecating iconoclastic titles like 10/10 bot troll, to let progressives and leftists know your accounts are on their side.

You invite these trolls to follow one another to boost their prominence.

You instruct them to spend most of their time bashing Democratic politicians, Hillary Clinton cultists, and the occasional right-wing Trump supporter — whom they are to immediately brand a Nazi or fascist (as this distracts from the reality that the Democrat-GOP duopoly is itself a virtually fascist one-party state.)

By spending most of their time attacking the Democratic Party, these trolls lure in left-leaning Twitter users who are fed up with establishment politics and supported Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign.

Now here’s where you have them start the actual propaganda with a subtle bait-and-switch:

The trolls are to make it clear that the progressive leftist movements are to focus on transforming the Democratic Party into a grassroots organization.

They are to superficially advertise that they support third-party movements. Yet they are to make clear that these third-party movements have virtually no chance of success, since the two-party electoral stranglehold and corporate media consolidation make it very difficult for third parties to get on the ballot and spread their message to the voters.

These trolls wish they could support third-party movements — in some cases they're Jill Stein voters themselves — yet they just don’t think it’s pragmatic to devote one’s energy to a third party as long as the Democratic Party remains so corrupt. We need to transform the Democrats first, of course!

These trolls are to be avid Bernie Sanders fans. They are to create memes of him and make him appear as a fighter for the people — no worries that he entirely ignored the rigging of the primary against himself and joined hands with the same Democratic elite that sabotaged his campaign: this is all part of his strategic wisdom.

And when someone suggests that Bernie should leave the Democrats? Well these trolls are to make clear that that’s a no-go.

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Suppose you have this operation running for 200 weeks, from election day 2016 to election day 2020. How much would it cost?

$20 million.

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Now you say: That’s a whole lot of money for a silly Twitter troll operation. Why would the Democrats possibly waste their money on that?? For Christ’s sake, they’re already broke!

But let’s put this in perspective.

The Democrats are aligned with billionaires and corporate entities that have trillions of dollars stashed in offshore tax havens.

The Democrats are also aligned with the FBI, CIA and defense agencies which have mysteriously “lost” trillions of dollars.

Did I say trillions? What I meant was trillions.

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Let’s be very conservative and suppose that Democratic donors and Democrat-aligned covert federal agencies have a cumulative $2 trillion in assets they’re willing to use for political purposes.

So here’s the question:

Would these Democratic donors and Democrat-aligned covert federal agencies be willing to spend 0.001% of their political assets on a Twitter campaign to herd progressives and leftists back towards the Democratic Party and hence inhibit the formation of a major non-corporate third party that could fundamentally threaten the capitalist status quo?