yea I talked about this before also. Its pretty sad and childish indeed. It is a huge problem but it is also why Steemit is "free market" in time people like Bernie will get outweighed and not have the power to be a bully any more. People like that will get weeded out by people coming together to do the right thing.....Well that is my hope anyways. Right now we are just in beta and the early whales are still powerful.
There are people like you here two and others as well who I believe will prevail in the end.
Blessings Brother~*~