I know it's hard right now, but don't let your passion get the better of your intellect.

For example, apparently some people decided to coordinate an effort to get Sanders FB groups shut down. I've tried to find unbiased articles that have more actual details on how and why this happened. It seems the reports were accusing the groups of posting child pornography, and while I cannot find anything official to confirm this, some horrible person may have even joined those groups to post something pornographic that people could alert on (and if true, that person needs to DIAF.) From Heavy.com, all groups have been reinstated.

The timing was after David Brock's announcement that he was putting more money into Correct the Record's online efforts to counter GOP attacks against Hillary. Given Brock has a dubious reputation but certainly is an expert on GOP smears, and the announcement was to put a million more into their online efforts, I understand it's tempting to want to connect the two.

But CTR's efforts are actually far more similar to Obama's Fight the Smears, which also employed people to direct online efforts toward sending graphics and facts to supporters, and sharing them out with people who you think will agree, when you take the time to read CTR's announcement.

Another place I ask you to put aside you passion and look at things logically is that as much as I'd love to have a million dollars (I would still eat Kraft Dinner, too, though), that's not really a great salary number if you're planning on creating an effective paid shill troll brigade. It's enough to give about 50 people jobs that would pay, before taxes, what.I draw on SSDI. The post that the official Bernie reddit banned to /r/conspiracy in November, resurfacing now, suggests pay of maybe $100 a week, but that's still an awful tiny brigade (and bears a great deal of resemblance, except with more realism re salaries and accusations, to a much better written piece acknowledged by the author to be a hoax).

I really don't think the FB asshattery is a Brock-baby -- and I think if you look at the facts dispassionately, you'll see that calling CTR's announcement of putting a million more into a website for people who support Hillary already to gather and fight smears "creating a giant army of paid trolls" to be both impossible and gross exaggeration of facts.

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So, the fact still exists -- there are people doing terrible things to Bernie Supporters and groups. If not Brock, if not Hillary, who are they?

I think if you ask yourselves these questions, you'll figure out the answers.

Who has raised far more dark money so far? Who has repeatedly ran ads that appear to be from Democrats against other Democrats but not been Democrats? Who have been known for decades as ratfuckers worse than any Democrat, even ones you might think are corrupt ones?

Since the answer to those three is the GOP, including Rove, the Koch Brothers, and lots of people acting far worse than anyone with Ds by their name....

I hope that those passionately saying Hillary supporters are all paid shills supporting anti-Democratic tactics and coordinating attacks against Bernie and supporting child pornography will at least pause a moment and take a deep breath before continuing.

And those who are more rational but still rightly upset that this happened, will remember who stands to gain from our infighting.