So long as you have that attitude, you'll be blind to the dark side of it. I don't see why it isn't obvious to anyone it's megalomania. He's playing with you people like you are little dolls in a dollhouse.
The only reason why he is taking a new strategy now is his power is not so overwhelming as it was once. One flag from him 9 months ago smashed my rep from 35 to 10. I pulled myself out of the funk pretty fast, and recognised that this goes with the territory, created by the parameters of this game called Steem. Which is why I intend to change those parameters so people like him don't have the ability to isolate us and toy with us.