[dayglored]

Bernie was too lazy for a bunch of hippies in a commune? Now THAT is what I call LAZY!!

[dayglored]

I don’t generally post political threads, preferring to stick to the tech stuff I know better. But this was just too good to pass up! :-)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Our candidates are all successful men in their respective fields.

[dayglored]

More from the article about Bernie at the "Myrtle Hill" commune:

When not reporting on the miracle of life, Sanders spent his time at Myrtle Hill in “endless political discussion,” according to Deloz.

Sanders’ idle chatter did not endear him with some of the commune’s residents, who did the backbreaking labor of running the place. Daloz writes that one resident, Craig, “resented feeling like he had to pull others out of Bernie’s orbit if any work was going to get accomplished that day.”

Sanders was eventually asked to leave. “When Bernie had stayed for Myrtle’s allotted three days, Craig politely requested that he move on,” Daloz writes.

Deloz does not specify what issues Sanders discussed with commune residents, but earlier passages give the general flavor of political discussion at Myrtle Hill. “There were bigger ideas under discussion too: a kibbutz-style school for commune children; the possibility of a coming violent revolution; and the pros and cons of group marriage.” In another passage, Deloz describes how one commune resident led the children on marches, chanting “Ho! Ho! Ho Chi Minh! Vietcong is going to win!”

I am not surprised by that description. Nor am I amused.

[pepsi_junkie]

[Redbob]

Imagine that: Bernie has always been a lazy ass, so politics was the only logical career for him.

[Dr. Sivana]

Interest in alternative medicine was strong among members of the counterculture as part of their wider suspicion of modern science, which was associated with the sterility of hospitals and the destruction of war.

Some of those nuts and twigs types used the same reasoning and emotional intuition to be anti-abortion. Sanders didn't pick up on that vibe, I guess.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bolshevik Bernie.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Bernie Sanders was asked to leave a hippie commune in 1971 for “sitting around and talking” about politics instead of working, according to a forthcoming book.

Not the first time I've heard this - outside of government salaries, Sanders has spent most of his adult life as a loafer and a bum, too lazy for hippies living in a commune. And this guy is the darling of the young left.

[OddLane]

This is akin to being ejected from the Korean Friendship Association for praising Kim il-Sung too much.

[mquinn]

He was harshing their mellow, man,

[LostInBayport]

I suspect the truth for his ouster is more basic. He does have some animus toward deodorant, if I recall.

[tinyowl]

Lizzy Warren: Fake Indian
Ted Cruz: Fake Conservative
Bernie Sanders: Fake Hippie
Donald Trump: ... Well ... at least ... authentic Donald Trump. OK Fake Buffoon. FAKE Buffoon.

[Husker24]

No kidding, if a hippy community kicks you out for being lazy, you have a serious problem.

[Secret Agent Man]

He clearly thought of himself as a leader/intellectual and therefore, above manual labor.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Shirk - what commies do best....

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Bernie: The Zonker Harris Candidate!

(With apologies to Doonesbury—the cartoon Zonker wasn’t trying to take over the Free World.)

[fella]

During that time I was living in the Ozarks and saw a lot of communes start up, few made it through the first winter and none made it through the second.

[equaviator]

“Bernie Sanders was asked to leave a hippie commune in 1971 for “sitting around and talking” about politics instead of working”

Nowadays in the workplace, even if you do both things well you can still be made to leave the ‘commune’.

[jonrick46]

I wonder how much Bernie has lined his pockets from his fellow travelers and what his true worth is now?

[elpadre]

I read a while back that some of the hippies stayed clear of Bernie as he touted a extreme Communist line and they were more interested in the free love life they were enjoying. The anarchists life was was too much work.