Calling Bernie Sanders “Bernie”

[Mr. Morden]

Seems like Bernie Sanders supporters tend to call him “Bernie”, rather than using the convention of referring to politicians by their last name.  It reminds me of Ron Paul backers calling him “Dr. Paul”.

[Mr. Morden]

Sure, he's most widely known as Bernie and I don't see what's wrong with calling him that.

I'm not saying it's wrong.  I'm just saying that I've observed that it's mostly his supporters who call him "Bernie", whereas non-supporters call him "Sanders".  The latter is more in line with how most politicians are referred to by last name.  E.g., "Trump" is more common than "Donald" and "O'Malley" is more common than "Martin".  Or maybe it's a generational thing.  I don't know.

[Mr. Morden]

Thanks Morden for bringing up this most important issue. What would we do without you?

I ask myself that question every day.  The only possible conclusion is that you would all leave and do something else, because the forum would be boring without me.