Someone wrote this out got a few upvotes and then their account was deleted.

I don't know. The trolling in Sanders reddits and the auto posts promoting Hillary were almost as powerful and overwhelming as the negative stuff about her. I find it extremely frightening that there are people out there who get paid to emotionally abuse people in order to manipulate opinions in a social network environment. Sanders supporters like me are not overwhelmingly "My way or the Highway". That statement in itself is abusive because it passes a judgment on an entire group of people who happen to support a different candidate than Hillary Clinton. I certainly am able to see the bigger picture but that doesn't automatically make me support Hillary just because I am told that she is the only choice. Why is civil debate such a problem in a country that puts freedom of speech at the highest priority? What does it mean "things will normalize"? That the "norm" is that Hillary Clinton is the ONLY valid candidate?

You say "make your voice heard". But if that voice doesn't match with the "norm" it's not worth being listened to?

The gas lighting, the Astroturfing, the inability to distinguish whether I am reading the honest opinion of a person or the paid talking points of a campaign is truly scary.

You say "Redditors are very impressionable". Yes, and that makes it so much easier to manipulate opinions. Why not agree to civil conversations that allow every opinion instead of trying to influence how and what people should think? So many valid posts are being deleted, simply because they don't fit a certain narrative or are not in support of Hillary Clinton. That is wrong.

Deleting profanities, hate speech, insults to other Redditors etc. - I am all for that. But controlling the narrative by pushing certain perceptions and opinions and silencing others is dangerous. You basically try to push your own narrative in a post that is disguised as a neutral, peace-inducing comment. You take a strike at Sanders supporters and Trump supporters while saying that people should have their voices heard.

I am certainly not agreeing with your opinion and find it a very dangerous path your are walking and promoting here.

What a future, in which manipulation of opinion is a "norm" and free speech is frowned upon. I don't want my children to grow up in a world that doesn't care about their voices if they don't agree with the powers at be. So, I will most certainly try to make my voice heard in whatever way I can. And I hope others will too, whoever their preferred candidate is. Because here, yes, it becomes extremely personal.