fingerlake,
A few years ago a student of mikey's found one of his threads by accident through google and joined here to give us the whole backstory.
There had been a thread about what a troll mikey was (he wasn't mikey then btw....can't remember his screen name at the time but it was close enough to his real name that this student knew immediately who he was) at the top of the page and this former student came in and basically exposed everything about him.
As I recall he has this pathological need to do everywhere what he does here. It's not even always the same point of view. For example if he's posting or discussing in a conservative crowd he will play the part of a liberal.
He's never been interested in a discussion or even a debate. He just needs to play the part of the "outsider" and defend a contrary line of thought.
The truth is there is much that can be debated about the points he cuts and pastes, particularly the ones relating to economics.
There are always different ways to interpret raw numbers and there are also many measures that are used to determine economic health. So many in fact that there is an entire course in most MBA programs devoted to specifically understanding what they all mean and how they all fit together.
The main thesis, if you will, of these courses is that no one measure and no one standard can come close to encapsulating the very complex state of our country's fiscal and monetary situation at a given time. They need to be contextualized and taken together in tandem to get a decent snapshot of where we stand.
So in that thread yesterday where he linked an opinion piece and went on to argue that it was irrefutable proof of our economy under Obama, well it's just not the case.
And in truth I would love to have a discussion about that particular article. But mikey doesn't want to have a discussion (nor do I think he has the understanding of basic macro-econ to engage in one); he wants to pretend to be persecuted and then gloat when he finds an op-ed piece that agrees with his side.
Is he racist? I definitely do not think so.
Does he really believe anything he posts? I definitely don't think so.
Do I think he's delusional? Again, no. But his need for trolling makes his mental state somewhat questionable.
He needs to play this role of outsider. Which is why I imagine he seeks out message boards and whatnot where most members are of a similar mind set so he can fulfill his need to troll.
....but the world goes 'round
