The Deluded

Sylvia Squire

Everyone who has participated on a Facebook page dedicated to liberal or progressive politics has encountered a Sylvia, and possibly even debated them. They are all trolls, and seldom even try to engage substantive debate. When they do, they often try to deflect and address issues they believe to be factually represented by some dribble they picked up online.

This poor deluded troll first showed up on a post to Politics with Jarred & Dave. Typically, it did not address the content of the post, but simply tried to provoke a response. When its comment was addressed, it deleted its first comment (the evidence), and went on to deny the facts in the response, and asserted that the response was delusional. It also won itself mention on the Troll Hall of Shame wall for another post.

Flash forward in time to another post on Politics with Jarred & Dave. This time, Sylvia rushes to the defense of Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona, and rambles through a defense of Arizona's rashly considered anti-immigrant law, and then begins attacking Presidents Obama and Clinton over the economic decline and a host of ongoing economic issues: