2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: And the propaganda against Sanders and his supporters continues [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)for both sides: so it's great for whispering campaigns and for spreading easy-to-understand charts and graphs; and since not everyone wants to get in a fight online comment sections easily self-separate, so the echo-chamber effect can reach Khmer Rouge proportions
but what makes Sanders unique regarding the internet isn't that he's "the social-media candidate": heck, so was Paul! but people have been debunking GOP poop with Sanders videos on YouTube since 2001 and I was mentioning him to whoever I could for nearly a decade--not just because of his points but because of his different view of politics: he didn't just say "support bill X" or "vote candidate N" but showed what the country needed, how politics and the economy operated, and how that operation was wrecking things for 99.9% of us who weren't betting big on bubbles or their bursting; your asshole uncle will shake his fist and say "they're all the same" and then you send him a CSPAN video about why there's such inescapable synchrony between 80% of reps; your asshole uncle loves his Medicare and SS and tax breaks: the Pubs machine-gun "overlarge tax codes" and the Dems loot the lockbox; Sanders points out the whole webwork
and THAT'S what the internet provides