# If you were a Russian troll ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 12, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-russian-troll/817780 "2018-07-12T14:32:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-russian-troll/817780/1 "2018-07-12T14:32:04Z")
What sort of posts would you post if you were a Russian troll? I am assuming that the primary goal is to have America further removed from being in a position of world leadership and less able to build coalitions that can work against Russian interests. To that end Trump and the current Trump dominated and dysfunctional GOP being in charge is a major aim. Sowing division on the D-side and undermining any possible Democratic comeback in midterms has to be job one. The secondary goal might be to discredit democracy and the American system as a model for other countries to emulate in general. Distrust in the electoral process, both at the party and general election levels, and in the systems of government, would be in their interest. What sort of things would you write to catalyze those occurring? I highly doubt we have any Russian agents or bots here but after you’ve come up with your ideas to answer that question look at some of the discussions in this forum. It does seem to me that we have posters who might as well be. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-russian-troll/817780)._