In the #occupywallstreet campaign, and #climatechange struggle, we are plagued by provocateurs and agents of oil and the 1% which attack from the outside and from within. Here are some tips on how to identify them.
- high tweet/follower ratio on twitter (amazingly useful metric)
- super-radical terminology with confusing array of targets
- insistence on moral absolutes, one must be for/against x
- focus on divisions in the 99%
- focus on any path (money, law, celebrities) except mass unity
- obsession with corporate media coverage
- focus on conspiracy or implying explosive hidden truth
- asserting belief required for understanding
- asking for money (unless homeless, then give)
- saying "I support your cause, but..." (if they really support, it's their cause)
- always criticizing 99% leadership or persistently negative
- ad hominem attacks, or scatology (to make new people give up in disgust)
- generalized misanthropy - "all people are greedy," "all politicians are crooks"
- claiming all the answers are in one document or candidate
- blaming government for everything
- never directing comments against the banks or oil industry
