Posted on 04/19/2016 7:53:22 PM PDT by dayglored
[The irony is strong with this one...]
Sanders' 'endless political discussion' distracted the hippies from their work
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.
We Are As Gods by Kate Daloz, scheduled for release April 26, chronicles the rise and fall of the Myrtle Hill Farm in northeast Vermont. Daloz, a Brooklyn writer, was in a special position to write a history of Myrtle Hill: she was raised near the commune in a geodesic dome residence with an outhouse called the Richard M. Nixon Memorial Hall. Her parents were close acquaintances of the commune residents, who offered them tips about wilderness living.
In the summer of 1971, Myrtle Hill received a visitor: Bernie Sanders, age 30, at the cusp of his political career with the socialist Liberty Union Party.
Sanders came to the farm while researching an article on natural childbirth for the Liberty Union’s party organ, Movement. 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. “Many elements of Western medicine came under suspicion during this period, but none more so than modern obstetrics,” Deloz writes.
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(With apologies to Doonesbury—the cartoon Zonker wasn’t trying to take over the Free World.)
“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!”
These things in the end are always about the sex; never about the work. The only commune that got work out of the residents was Jonestown (where they were basically enslaved); they had a nice crop of multi-racial kids there as well.
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.
“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’.
I wonder how much Bernie has lined his pockets from his fellow travelers and what his true worth is now?
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.
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