Do you rely on Snopes reporting? Become a member today. After Sanders gained political prominence as a presidential candidate in , that essay was brought to wider attention in a profile of Sanders published by Mother Jones on 26 May What Sanders did share with the young radicals and hippies flocking to Vermont was a smoldering idealism forged during his college years as a civil rights activist β he coordinated a sit-in against segregated housing and attended the March on Washington β but only a fuzzy sense of how to act on it.
Sanders bounced back and forth between Vermont and New York City, where he worked at a psychiatric hospital. After his marriage broke up in the late s, he moved to an A-frame farmhouse outside the Vermont town of Stannard, a tiny hamlet with no paved roads in the buckle of the commune belt.
None of this is actually true, of course, but when have facts ever got in the way of the liberal agenda? The bit about rape comes at the very beginning, as does some not-totally-safe-for-work language: A man goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy.
A woman on her knees, a woman tied up, a woman abused. A woman enjoys intercourse with her man β as she fantasizes being raped by 3 men simultaneously. Have you ever looked at the Stag, Man, Hero, Tough magazines on the shelf of your local bookstore? To what in us are they appealing? You can draw divergent conclusions from the article itself.
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