Back in the 2008 race the invective against Obama by Clinton supporters was… outrageous. And trying to stand up for Obama against the withering attacks by so many people willing to say the most awful things was exhausting.
So… back then I came up with a solution that made me feel better, and allowed me to help Obama in my own way. I stopped directly engaging in the food fights, instead… every time I came across a comment that pissed me off and made me want to scream through into the Abyss of the Internet I dropped a quarter into a “Swear Jar”.
At the end of the week all of the money that was in the jar went to Obama’s campaign. The final tally over that long terrible campaign was a little over $200 dollars.
I am in a considerably better place economically than I was then… and the time for the swear jar has unfortunately returned.
So every time I read one of these outrageous comments calling me, Bernie Sanders, or the rest of his supporters racists, misogynists, naive, useful idiots… what ever… I am going to drop some money in the “Swear Jar”.
I am no longer going to engage. I am not going to flag. I am not going to scream and yell at the gaping void that cares little for my opinion or the facts I bring… I will only respond informing the person just how much money they have inadvertently donated, through me, to making Bernie Sanders the next President of the United States.
In fact, I encourage all of my fellow Sanders supporters to do the same. Do not engage the trolls who are trying to demoralize us. Fight them not with words, but with money… they think their candidate is inevitable, sitting upon a great pile of lucre like an invincible dragon. Let us show them just how wrong they are.