I'm curious...

[Not a Fan]

81. The vitriol

I will take either candidate - whoever wins the primary is fine by me - though I will be voting for Bernie. But I think they are both wonderful options and since I cannot personally decide who will win I spend my time supporting both of them on social media. The Supreme Court is at risk. NO ONE gets bad mouthed. That being said ....

I am active at a number of political fb sites (not candidate sites) ... and though I saw my first (outrageously stupid) derogatory comment about Bernie today - I see them by the handful every day regarding Hillary.

I see the F word and the W word. Someone said if she were starving they would S*** in her mouth. (Happily a moderator took that one down.) I saw her called the bloody red queen. Aside from that bs I see nonstop vitriol directed at her. And it's not merely a comment here and there - but often entire angry paragraphs full of talking point style insults dripping with hate.

I think most of these people are young and were wearing diapers while the Arkansas Project was in full swing. They have no context of the overall years-long political situation when it comes to the Clintons. I tried to engage a few times, but they can't be reached I've found. No one is going to take their hate away from them!

I'm also at odds with an old fb acquaintance because he seems to think it's his personal job to take Hillary down. To that end he spams any post I have in which Hillary is a factor. That hasn't happened in a few days - not since a few other friends jumped into the fray.

A friend who is a moderator for a few different fb pages contacted me in a message to tell me that moderators (they have their own page to chat) had been having to block this person because of his spamming habits. He saw we were "friends" and wanted to warn me. This is one of my best and oldest fb acquaintances - we've never had a conflict in all the time I've known him and now he's turning into a monster.

I see people comment with regularity that they will NEVER vote for Hillary. I've never seen anyone say that about Bernie.

I think it's gotten very ugly and that it may only get worse. Heaven help us if we can't all pull together for the general election.