Our Favorite Left Wing Sock Puppet Is At It Again - Celebrating the House ACA Repeal

[TomCADem]

The Sane Progressive is a great example of a left wing sock puppet who attacks Democrats and pushes right wing talking points, but from the "left." She supported Bernie when he competing against Hillary, accused him of selling out when he endorsed her, argued that the primaries were totally rigged, but then attacked allegations that Russians interfered as being nothing but sour grapes. For a progressive, it is remarkable how rarely she says anything negative about Republicans, including Donald Trump.

Yet, here she is, celebrating the House vote, but arguing that progressives should be supportive of this repeal, because it creates conditions that are ripe for single payer:

I think that the Sane Progressive is instructive in that she is both predictable and instructive of how a sock puppet progressive PR campaign works. She eagerly and consistently attacks Democrats while rarely saying anything negative about Republicans. Indeed, she actually celebrates Republican victories with the rationale being that if things are sufficiently bad, a left wing utopia is sure to follow. Why does she do this? The NY Times did an in depth story awhile back:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

The Agency: From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls”
has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet — and in real-life American communities.

All of this has contributed to a dawning sense, among the Russian journalists and activists I spoke with, that the Internet is no longer a natural medium for political opposition. “The myth that the Internet is controlled by the opposition is very, very old,” says Leonid Volkov, a liberal politician and campaign manager to Alexei Navalny. “It’s not true since at least three years.” Part of this is simple demographics: The Internet audience has expanded from its early adopters, who were more likely to be well-educated liberal intelligentsia, to the whole of Russia, which overwhelmingly supports Putin. Also, by working every day to spread Kremlin propaganda, the paid trolls have made it impossible for the normal Internet user to separate truth from fiction.

“The point is to spoil it, to create the atmosphere of hate, to make it so stinky that normal people won’t want to touch it,” Volkov said, when we met in the office of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation. “You have to remember the Internet population of Russia is just over 50 percent. The rest are yet to join, and when they join it’s very important what is their first impression.” The Internet still remains the one medium where the opposition can reliably get its message out. But their message is now surrounded by so much garbage from trolls that readers can become resistant before the message even gets to them. During the protests, a favorite tactic of the opposition was making anti-Putin hashtags trend on Twitter. Today, waves of trolls and bots regularly promote pro-Putin hashtags. What once was an exhilarating act of popular defiance now feels empty. “It kind of discredited the idea of political hashtags,” says Ilya Klishin, the web editor for the independent television station TV Rain who, in 2011, created the Facebook page for the antigovernment protests.

Russia’s information war might be thought of as the biggest trolling operation in history, and its target is nothing less than the utility of the Internet as a democratic space. In the midst of such a war, the Runet (as the Russian Internet is often called) can be an unpleasant place for anyone caught in the crossfire. Soon after I met Leonid Volkov, he wrote a post on his Facebook wall about our interview, saying that he had spoken with someone from The New York Times. A former pro-Kremlin blogger later warned me about this. Kremlin allies, he explained, monitored Volkov’s page, and now they would be on guard. “That was not smart,” he said.

[Cha]

1. Throw her in with sarandon and stein.. they're evil. Wonder how

many she suckered?

[Ninsianna]

4. Do you think it's a deliberate evil or just a profound stupidity?

They're both very privileged women who have no real concept of reality, and neither would be harmed by the consequences of the things they advocate.

[workinclasszero]

6. Don't forget TYT

Those assholes did the same thing as insane Debbie.

[WinkyDink]

2. Who is this person and why does anyone care what she thinks? I'm tired of the Internet's making

complete non-entities into "political pundits," "beauty experts," "social commentators," etc.

[SergeStorms]

9. Agreed.

I couldn't even listen to her...."ummm.......ahhhhh....." bullshit. I'll never waste my time clicking on another of her delirious screeds. If she's the "sane liberal", I'm an insane Trump supporter.

[Ninsianna]

3. Is this a real person or just another character from whatever agency created

that HAHA guy?

[workinclasszero]

7. Yeah what happened to that russian troll?

[Ninsianna]

11. HAHA?

The purest progressive, and the snowflakiest, has found a home in the warm bosom of that bastion of purest progressivism, The Daily Caller.

Are these just created personas like Guccifer, portrayed by actors? (I understand HAHA has or had a youtube channel) or real people who are just this stupid?

In either case, their audience seems to be lazy people who have trouble reading. The twitter trolls really enjoy flinging around youtube links as if that's evidence or something. Same links, from people pretending to be on the right and the left, so one has to wonder who's behind them.

[Hoyt]

5. Don't think yesterday's vote gets us closer to single payer. Wish it did.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Is this the same women who spoke into a toilet float?

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Or at least that's what her microphone looked like.

I think she used to post on DU or so I'm told.

[Ninsianna]

12. What's ST?

[LexVegas]

10. Alt left. nt

[TomCADem]

13. The "Alt Left" Are The Opportunistic Sock Puppets Who Push Russian/RW Arguments...

...from the left.

* They can praise Bernie on the one hand, but then accuse him of selling out.
* They can complain about the primaries being rigged, but then dismiss the clear evidence of Russian interference and hacking as being fake.
* They attack Democrats from not doing enough to protect the environment, but give Trump and Republicans a free pass as they staff the EPA with climate change denialists.
* They can claim they are for access to health care, but cheer the possible passage of a Republican bill that will take healthcare away from millions.

It is easy to dismiss the Sane Progressive now, but leading up to the primaries many folks on this website posted her propaganda on this website during the course of the primaries. She is not alone. You have Ed Schultz, Glenn Greenwald and other folks who were described as progressives who now happily run interference for Trump and the Russia on shows and featured on Russia Today.

There is no "alt left," because they are not really left, but are just closet right wingers or opportunists happy to get paid or at least featured because they undermine Democrats from the "left."