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No. I think that there are certain individuals who probably need to cool it. But calling people pieces of shit is not a fair assessment.

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That's survey dot PRX.org. Hey, I'm Dylan Merin, and welcome back to conversations with people who hate me,

the show where I take contentious online disagreements and move them onto a phone call.

Sometimes I speak solo to my own detractors and other times I moderate between guests.

Today I'm doing the latter.

Now if you've been at all keeping up even casually with American political news, you'll

know that there's a Democratic presidential primary going on.

Two of the front runners are Elizabeth Warren, a senator from Massachusetts, and

Bernie Sanders, a senator from Vermont.

Both candidates run on largely progressive left-leaning promises, and from the outside, they seem pretty similar. Now if you

don't live in the United States or you do and you're listening to this in the

near or distant future but the relentless news cycle has completely washed away your memory of this time, that's okay, because

this story is unfortunately timeless and universal.

Two politically similar candidates run against each other and their competition plays out more fiercely among their respective supporters.

This of course translates into online fights, vicious verbal exchanges between people who are nearly ideologically identical to each other.

From afar, I get it, this can be very confusing, but this show is all about getting closer,

taking a big story and zooming in to just two people who, as always, can only speak for themselves.

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