Now that Bernie is slowly catching up with Hillary, you will be noticing news articles like “Occupy Wallstreets and far-left all white activists gather for Bernie Sanders in a predominantly white and liberal state near Vermont.”

Talking heads will keep on saying “Socialism” multiple times as if they’re cursing and will always always try to align him as the democratic analog to Donald Trump.

First, I ask you not to be discouraged by all this. Rather, be very encouraged that this is happening because this means that we are nearing the tipping point. The media is trying to quell a possible reach of a critical point by alienating the movement from influencing the Early Majority. This is a classic social network case.

This is a classic case of social network, not in the social media sense, but in a behavioral sociology sense. As it stands, we are called the Early Adopters. We all know this in terms of new technology, we are the first ones to realize the good in a product or an idea, and try as much as possible to spread it. The reason why we’re spreading it is because it will do us more good if more people adhere/subscribe to it.

In this case, the idea is Bernie Sanders. The amount of early adopters — if this keeps growing — will reach a certain point wherein the number of adopters will start growing in an overwhelming rate, achieving the Early Majority. As it progresses, we will then reach the late majority, and then the laggards. Please refer to this image of innovation cycle.

Now the media would of course want to keep the status quo. But if we want to innovate as a society, we have to fight this. They will try as much as possible to prevent Early Adopters from influencing the Early Majority by making the innovation/idea of Bernie repugnant to them or that it is an outlier special case not worthy of anyone’s time. This is where we need to work together.