King Kreole
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Either twitter matters or it doesn't. If it does matter, which I would argue the Sanders campaign believes more than any other campaign, then how the campaign officials and supporters choose to communicate on it matters as well. If it doesn't matter, then who cares about people talking shyt about the campaign and his supporters on it? It can't be both ways. I personally believe that while Twitter's demographics make it unrepresentative of the broader public, it does matter because it's now a mainstream communication channel that has real world impact (see: Trump). As a side note, I think it's funny to see all the anti-Liz people (not you) claim twitter doesn't matter in the wake of this when they've been divining her entire health care position from a single tweet with the word "access" in it.
I don't believe Bernie's actual movement is trading in "white terror" or any stale, reheated 2016 Clinton smears, but the movement's online presence definitely features some ugly, regressive, dark energy. It's to be expected when you're courting the disenfranchised and fringe. I don't think Bernie himself has done anything to promote that, but I think his campaign is responsible for conjuring some of these sentiments when they flirt with certain conspiratorial and unnecessarily antagonistic lines of attack. It can make the movement an unwelcoming place for people who are on the fence or not already actively committed to Bernie. For many of his most online/fringe supporters, that's a feature, not a bug. But I think it's a bad approach to take for a movement committed to the noble goal of actually, fundamentally changing the very nature of this society. America won't be healed by extremely online dirtbag leftist dipshyts who tweet about Elizabeth Warren or the WFP being centrist shill enemies of progress. Being magnanimous and welcoming is the path to victory and true change, not the bitter resentment that animates a notable segment of his online support.
