College Student work at Trump Troll Farm

 Donald Trump presidential campaign is using teams of college students to spread disinformation over social media.  See this article: 

• https://enewspaper.sandiegouniontribune.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=00f3c1e2-cff3-4907-a949-771e11b019d1

The article cites a team in Arizona doing it.  But that probably is the only team that was caught or detected doing it.  I suspect there are teams all over the country (and probably in Russia too) who are doing the same thing.  

It sort of reminds me of Nov 1964 and I was a junior in college in Western Pennsylvania.  A group of us volunteered to go to polls and stand a legal distance away and hand out matchbooks printed with the name of a Republican candidate for the Pennsylvania legislature.  I still was not old enough to vote or drink at the time.  But the candidate offered to pay us $20 for the day, and to come to a party at his big home in the evening for free beer!  Of course, the beer was the big incentive!  At the time, however, I don't believe any of us would have thought to spread misinformation about candidates.

Why does Donald Trump want a "Pro-American Curriculum?"

 Today's Union-Tribune reported that Trump wants US School curricula to be "pro-American." -- See this link: 

• https://enewspaper.sandiegouniontribune.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=b3daef7e-6b2f-4db5-9592-207e34913f8c

From the article, it appears that he does not want our schools to teach about the mistakes made by America, but only the supposed good things that were done.  My elementary and high school education was in Maryland during the 1950s and 60s.  I did not remember ever hearing about how the US abused the Native American Indians, Blacks, Women, Chinese, or Japanese.  Many of these aspects of history were not even taught about in college history classes.  I always wondered why that happened!  

Now I think I understand!  The victors get to write the history and do not want to be shamed. The so-called "religious right" throughout history has claimed that the groups that were being oppressed were "inferior" and that God made them that way.  Of course, they were proven wrong time after time.  They now want to bury that past!