the account that was first mentioned was definitely a parody one. I posted a screenshot.
I was looking at the second one. A blue ticked Congressman, with matching facebook. He exists and really is a congressman. Under his tweet/facebook post were irate Nebraskans wanting to know why he wanted to bring over a "hopeless case" (not my words) from another country shortly after voting to remove health insurance from millions of Americans.
So i think that one is real.
But I couldn't find a news story to confirm the vote. So no idea why the congressman posted what he did. Has he put up a correction, or further information ?
I did find something interesting (to me) on the Italian blue lit buildings front. Tiny little place up in the mountains with fuck off big castle. Deffo lit blue for Charlie rather than some other cause.
The councillor named as being one of the thrusts for the lights... is full on pro-CA. The mayor is several degrees of fervour behind her, but in the same vein. The political party is a tiny local one with no real info online. But seems to lean strongly left.
The interesting bit (to me) is the "in your face" Lefite Neo Religiosity of The Cause. The councillor in particular has never met a left leaning cause she didn't like. And once the bit is between the teeth posting on the subject becomes almost exclusive. Her feeds looks identical to the hardcore Catholic ones, except religious pics and quotes are substituted with Cause Memes and one sided opinion pieces in abundance.
It's just an idea I have been mulling for while, but I have had an sensation that in some circles on the left faith based positions are becoming favoured over evidenced information based ones. To what feels like quite an extreme degree. It's like a mirror image of the Conservative Christian is forming. And it's equally single minded and fixed in place with a mule like resistance to alternative perspectives, debate or dialectic. To the point where people who do not agree 100% are denounced as "heretics" rather than engaged with in discussion.
I don't know if I am reading too much into things. But some threads of thought seem to be converging and crystallising while watching the various aspects of communication and expression of opinion in this case. I am starting to believe it is possible that we are at the beginning of a period of human history where perhaps reason/shades of grey starts to become less socially acceptable , and ye olde unquestioning faith (in any ideology) is regaining ground as "right thinking".
It's not the most cheering mid-week thought I have ever had. With any luck I am dead wrong and reading far too much into far too little.