If you could provide some specifics, Gigi, it would make your armwaving generalizations more palatable.
IF you could take responsibility for your own exemplary paranoia at times past here on the forum, it would also make it more credible.
At present, I try to understand exactly what you are referring to and am forced to give it up as a bad job because it is neither.
My experience has been that dirty tricks and snide or passive-aggressive remarks, nattery generalizations, and such tend to have two major responses. They drive people into apathetic silence because they are so illogical, or they infuriate them.
DUring the Bush campaigns a lot of hopeful people were driven into apathetic confusion because the falsifications and the slams and the distortions from Bush's minions were bewildering, brazen, and so confident that normal people were driven to accepot them silently in many cases, thinking they must have some kind of information we don't. Obviosuly, the ordinary voter must be missing somethign because the messages from the Oval Office just didn't make sense.
But from the harsh experience of eight years of that clique, we learned, at least, that we were wrong. THere was no secret, superior intell, and the things that looked crazy were just that. The dirty tricks were just dirty. The poses were hollow and the justifications were false.
We also learned that the retreat into silent resignation when confronted with illogic is a dangerous choice, because it lends power to falsifiers.
I don't hold with gratuitous attacks and insults, from Obama supporters or Hillary supporters. But when Hillary's crew puts out a national release saying Obama was not a professor, when the U of C says he was, then I think anyone of goodwill has a duty to piep up and point out the lie. And do it energetically and clearly and pointedly so there is no question about it. So you can count on me, and anyone else who learned these lessons from the sad capitulation of the nation under the Rove administration, to refuse to shut up on issues of fact and reason. Including the kind of distortive passive-aggressive assertions that don't really lie directly but imply whole acres of false reality by altering importance, ignoring context, abd all the other tricks of the slime-writer.