-By Warner Todd Huston
In a new book chronicling the history of a 1970s commune, an author claims that self-avowed socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was kicked out of the place for shirking the work required of its residents.
According to author Kate Daloz, in 1971 when he was 30-years-old, Bernie Sanders came to the commune just as he was launching his career in the socialist Liberty Union Party.
But after staying for a period of time, the commune’s staff asked Sanders to leave because he spent all his time sitting around talking about politics and taking other residents away from the work they were required to do to keep the facility running.
In the forthcoming book We Are As Gods, Daloz presents a history of the Myrtle Hill Farm commune situated in picturesque Northeast Vermont.
According to the Freebeacon, the author says that Sanders went to the commune for research purposes. Apparently he was writing an article on natural childbirth for the Liberty Party Union’s magazine, “Movement.”
But according to author’s interviews, Sanders was a disruptive influence among the hippies and yippies living there.
Daloz found one resident named Craig who told her he “resented feeling like he had to pull others out of Bernie’s orbit if any work was going to get accomplished that day.”
It wasn’t long, Dolez says, that Craig asked Sanders to go back to the big city and leave his fellows alone.
Sanders has been a disruptive influence a lot these days, too, but this time he has been a millstone around the neck of putative Democrat front runner Hillary Clinton. In a recent NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll, Sanders has closed to within two points in the Democrat primary race.
For the first time Sanders came in at 48 percent to Hillary’s 50 percent in the nation-wide poll.
Another recent national poll finds Hillary leading by only 7.6 percent, a major drop from the lead of 18.5 percent she enjoyed at the end of January.
More ominous for Hillary Clinton, one survey found that a large number of Sanders fans said they’d switch their vote for Donald Trump if Sanders was denied the Democrat nomination.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing news, opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that wrote articles on U.S. history for several American history magazines. Huston is a featured writer for Andrew Breitbart’s Breitbart News, and he appears on such sites as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, Federalist Papers, and many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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