In Oliver Stone's "Nixon" (which I watched yesterday), Pat confronts Richard and gets into an argument with him at dinner. I don't know if this was a real conversation or not (we will never know), but she was getting into him and said "Dick, I know why you didn't burn those tapes. You WANT them to hear you. You want to see you at your worst. You want the entire world to see what you are capable of, the bitter ugliness that I have known for the last twenty years."
What if Dave wants to get rid of us and is trying to use the moderators as a weapon to drive us apart?