The polarization that has developed over the past couple decades is pretty alarming, and disheartening. It really is so often like a sports rivalry or something, where people root for one team or the other and just don't think anything the other team does has any merit at all. I think a lot of it is down to how easy it is to put oneself in a partisan echo chamber these days--if someone watches only FoxNews, tunes their FB feed to just right-wing-friendly posts, etc., it's easy for them to only ever see stuff they agree with, and which reinforces their preconceptions. It's the same on the left too, to an extent--but I think the right really has a lock on how to do that best.

Anyway, yes, more power to Bernie for trying to keep things focused on the issues rather than the personalities and who zinged who best today. Of course, that's exactly why much of the media ignores him, or only presents him in vague and/or trivial terms. But if he keeps fighting the good fight, hopefully he'll get through to enough people over the long run.