This thing with Tulsi Gabbard is way past weird.

Over on Reddit, where many Democrats and progressives hang out on the Politics subreddit, the contempt for Ms. Gabbard defies rationality. It’s so volatile and off-the-charts that I’m constantly asking myself, “What is the nature of this powerful disinformation machine that can so quickly and effortlessly turn a large group of astute and seemingly free-thinking adults into caustic sound bite machines delivering instantly spinning hate?”

Their stunning 180 degree behavioral changes completely mimic the so-called right-wing nuts they revile as barely coherent, closed-minded, fact-denying human beings. I see no difference.

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The ongoing escalation of Tulsi being a Russian asset is, in my opinion, A) trolling to de-escalate or normalize Trump’s own obvious associations, and B) taking the focus off the US’s constantly growing and outrageously large war machine — which is conspicuously consuming a greater and greater portion of American tax dollars at the expense of the so-called 99%.

And why the extremist-like, crowd panic-inducing focus on Ms. Gabbard, who’s polling numbers are a mere 1%? Why should there be any attention at all from Ms. Clinton? To send a message from the DNC to the rest of the candidates perhaps?

The issue of our times is Class Warfare. It’s not Tulsi’s patriotism or Trump’s incompetence. This thing with Tulsi is about dividing us, about getting us to tear each other to shreds, bit by bit. It’s one thing to disagree with her on policy but another thing altogether to fall into the trap of us vs. us.

We’ve become far too susceptible to giving into these impulses. I’m guilty of us vs. us myself. And if we don’t snap ourselves out of these behaviors, divisive politics are going to cause yet another harmful, disruptive election outcome.