Can we dispense with the idiot notion that Bernie is responsible for policing the internet?
The man is running a presidential campaign ffs. He doesn't have time read, let alone deal with, what anonymous people say online. All this "Bernie lost me because he won't put an end to it" nonsense is absurd. He is to date, the only candidate to make a formal call for supporters to be civil. Hillary hasn't. And please spare us the "we don't attack and disparage people online" BS, that would be a laughable fiction.
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Disagreeing with Bernie's policy proposals is one thing, expecting him to control what other people say is ridiculous. And I have read just as obnoxious comments directed to Sander's supporters as I have toward Hillary's supporters. In fact, most of the attacks on Bernie are not on him at all, but on his supporters. There has been very little in the way of reasoned criticism of his proposed policies, just comments to the effect that he can't win or that his policies will be obstructed by the Republicans (as if Hillary's won't be) or that his policies are too expensive.
What should matter is priorities and vision. What kind of country do we want to have? Who is best suited to undo the terrible effects of Republican governance? Who is trying to build a broad popular movement to effect change? I'm sorry, but I just don't see Hillary moving us far enough in the right direction. We have gone too far down the path to ruin both domestically and abroad, in my view, for incremental changes to be adequate. We are in a crisis on all fronts, and if we have another banking collapse as in 2008, it will be very, very difficult to recover from the damage.
Thank you for your post, whatchamacallit!
A political candidate is supposed to be able to control the internet. 
There's a pattern: The same people making the policing demands try to control speech on DU. Fuck that.
these things become inconsequential. 
