One of the nicest things about blogging is by the nature of the medium it enables one to keep abreast of happenings long before they become news.

In such fashion, an interesting thing happened to me.

I noticed that a troll had wandered on and laid down a swath of comments that sounded vaguely familiar. Hmmm, I probably know this person. I searched Del Liberal and found the one I remembered with similar wording. So to protect my intellectual property, I posted a tert reply id-ing that comment to be from a known troll, so any future reader could pass over it as they currently do the newsletter from Delaware’s Republican party… ie, waste of time.

Days later, I’d remembered I had not checked any further… so I did the usual things bloggers do.

What I found, was that my comment was a often placed across the net, in various modifications: I share equivalent billing with Friedman on the NY Times, quite a few of the Washington Post’s authors, several with Rachel Maddock, and since mine or Delaware Liberal’s didn’t show up in the search, i would guess quite a few of the blogs without massively large national readership.

Curiously my troll’s comments emanated from mental hospital in PA, off the banks of the Schuylkill River roughly 17 miles north of Reading.

That made sense. That would provide a rational explanation for the behavior that previously had no logical explanation, except for the fact that it was an anomaly, a departure from the way most of us would interact in a social medium…

So all these people who I thought were angry republicans a little off their rocker, are just inmates with free time. Knowing how much I would charge for spending my time commenting on comments across the web, the thought occurred to me, wow what a bargain, to have inmates do that for free.

Now whether this is a sanctioned issue or one where the ex- RNC’s chairman’s brother just happens to be interred and an indirect offer of “hey can you help a brother out” occurs, I don’t know. My guess it that the RNC gives the template to an inmate and he just copies and pastes on random sites, probably listed by RNC or some local chapter.

Lol, my first impression upon finding out, was to feel sorry for calling my troll: insane, psychotically disturbed, and someone who ought to be institutionalized. What if I had set his therapy back ten years!

But then, any future person reading my post and seeing their comments at it’s bottom, might actually think there was actually another side against the argument ( there isn’t) so the comments and their response were left intact.

It goes to show, that with money you can create an army of drones out of nothing, in this case use inmates with idle time to do one’s dirty work. It shows, why a party with less than 1/3 of the nation supporting it, can still at least electronically, appear to be more robust than it actually is.

Imagine reading Tom Friedman’s economic article, then having all comments in its favor? That is the American way. But in order to find anyone able to counteract those arguments, Republicans had to go beyond the boundaries of rational thinking: to the irrational.

Which is why: Republican answers never seem to respond to the question.

It makes sense now.

And I’m hoping that someone shows my inmate: that see… he really did make a difference in this ripple of time. He is now, a bona-fide piece of the puzzle, of what we call “life”…

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