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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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! :-)
Our candidates are all successful men in their respective fields.
When not reporting on the miracle of life, Sanders spent his time at Myrtle Hill in “endless political discussion,” according to Deloz.I am not surprised by that description. Nor am I amused.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!”
So is Bernie. His chosen field is being a bum, and even in 1971 could get people to pay his way.
Imagine that: Bernie has always been a lazy ass, so politics was the only logical career for him.
Bolshevik Bernie.
This is akin to being ejected from the Korean Friendship Association for praising Kim il-Sung too much.
He was harshing their mellow, man,
I suspect the truth for his ouster is more basic. He does have some animus toward deodorant, if I recall.
Dude has a spitting problem. As well a horrible oral maintenance and dandruff.
In my mind he's like that political jerk in Forrest Gump who beat up Jenny and then by way of apology said "It's this damn war! and Johnson!". Not that Bernie beat anyone, but that he is and always has been a self absorbed jerk who spouts leftwing agitprop in lieu of reasoned arguments or critical thinking.
So yeah, I could see even hippies thinking he was too lazy.
No kidding, if a hippy community kicks you out for being lazy, you have a serious problem.
He clearly thought of himself as a leader/intellectual and therefore, above manual labor.
Shirk - what commies do best....
To call them economically illiterate would be an understatement.
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