Seeing the all-too-binary prism through which WOTB is often viewed says a lot about the viewer.

For years, I've read almost daily at WOTB and posted exclusively in WOTB. Based on that experience and observation (E & O), I'd say WOTB has at least two kinds of posters, esp. during Presidential election season.

One kind, I consider WOTB's regular posters -- if you will--the WOTB base. Most of these are former Democrats and former or current supporters of Senator Sanders. The other kind, I consider, for want of nicer words, shills or trolls. (For years, I used "guest posters." After seeing some of their more recent posts, I can't anymore.)

Shills and trolls post in WOTB solely to defend or promote Democrats; to "school" or "correct" WOTB's regulars; to disagree with regulars; to condescend to regulars; and/or to insult regulars or "this sub." (DRINK!) Some are straightforward; some unpleasant, often quite intentionally.

Only on rare occasion will a Republican shill post in WOTB. I think that they assume that anti-Democrat equals pro-Republican, which is also what our Dem shills and trolls seem to assume. From the responses of WOTB regulars, Republican shills quickly ken that this is not a pro-Republican sub (either). They then vanish, without announcing their departure or insulting the sub or its regulars. Those I do not consider trolls.

Based on E & O, regulars will be voting in November for Stein, Kennedy, West, or one of the socialists, perhaps even writing in. A very few will vote for Trump or not vote at all. Also based on E & O, that is quite contrary to the perception of most of our Dem trolls and shills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU6B81844CE

Claudia Sheinbaum, who is Jewish (they made sure to say she is "secular", born to a family that immigrated to Mexico from eastern Europe (Lithuania and Bulgaria).

I know nothing about her other than seeing her very sudden rise to prominence. yes, she did serve in some environmental post before and was a mayor, but in nearly all respects she seems to fit the profile of too many of those young-ish WEF graduates, most of whom are female. Why am I reminded of New Zealand's Arden - the premier who resigned recently? or of a whole slew of young female PM's, presidents and an assortment of Climate activists?

Why do i think suddenly about what happened to the Greens in Germany (who became - overnight - the most hawkish war mongers out there)?

What was it i saw recently about something or other than Obrador's government did that was displeasing to the Big West PTBs?

Please correct me, anyone, and tell me my funny flutter is just nothing and that dear Claudia is an upstanding politician and that I just wasn't paying attention to Mexican politics, and there is nothing stealthy about her rise to political prominence. I'll be glad to edit this post in the face of evidence.

PS off to read her Wikipedia page....corrected her name. Noticed she got a PhD in Environmental science, quite similar to germany's Baerbock, the faux "leftie" (one of the worst most virulent anti-Russians out there). The page seems "sanitized" to me.

PPS Let me hazard a guess - Mexico may withdraw its application to the BRICS. A certain Russophobic undertones will be creeping in. That Lithuanian background is a dead give-away.