Whatever skinner is sprinkling onto the feed is working. Little do they know that the island is merely a distraction. It helps keep them from being underfoot while the real Dems try and get some work done. Silly DUmmies.
That appears to be it, exactly.
After trying to steal the presidency in 2000, and failing, the regular Democrats and liberals didn't want to lose again, and one major problem they had was that of the "image" of being far-left-wing extremists.
In this case, the "image" matches reality perfectly, but the general public doesn't care much for far-left-wing extremists, and so the regular Democrats and liberals needed to sugar-coat that "image," to hide what they really were, and are.
The regular Democrats and liberals had among their numbers primitives not sophisticated enough, not savvy enough, to be dishonest about what they are, and something had to be done about those.
So the idea of Skins's island, as a magnet to attract primitives, lasso them in, isolate them from the eyespan of the general public.
And it's worked out very well; imagine the damage the primitives could do to the "image" of Democrats and liberals, if the primitives were running amok all over the internet, shooting off their mouths.