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In reply to the discussion: The real reason a very loud few are posting hostility toward Glenn Greenwald at DU: [View all]stupidicus
(2,570 posts)based on an application of Occam's Razor.
While I, unlike many of the guilty we've heard from here, didn't read your post as an indictment of them all individually as tools of the state, what you posted sure makes it clear that their shared agenda is facillitated by it.
I think the simpler and more plausible explanantion for how avidly they vociforously defend the chief state actor and attack his critics is due to the tribal/team mentality coupled to a rational or irrational fear of the rightwing alternative. This blinds them to their enabling role in the steady drift rightward DC politics has seen for several decades now as the country has moved in the opposite direction.
The latter more than anything else is what I find so troubling -- it shows that they, like those they fear, have the political acumen and foresight of the common earthworm. The time would appear to be more ripe now for demands that our leaders in DC heed that leftward drift, not to say that "it's okay as long as you aren't as extreme as those rightwingers are now!".