Really? @berniesanders is actually my favorite user because from what I have noticed, from my short time on here, he speaks the truth. Posts do not trend because the content is good, they mostly trend because users are buying massive amounts of votes from bots. Honestly, if you have a rep score above 60, followers, and some steem related money in your account do they really need to buy more votes? In theory, if their content is organically valuable, shouldn't the content float to the top without buying massive amounts of votes? Steemit could easily write a simple voting script that prevents bad actors by looking at the authors rep score, their post, the money spent on votes to artificially inflate the posts trending position. There's so much they can do but they won't because they know they don't have enough engaged users to generate organic votes. If you are the one of the most hated I might need to follow you.