Good article on Bernie in the Kansas City Star
Go Kansas! 
http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article32986314.html
Jason Wilson, a visiting fellow at the Institute for Social Research at Australia’s Swinburne University, attended a rally of about 500 Sanders supporters in Portland, Oregon, over the summer.
“When I showed up at the cavernous community center, there were over 500 people there – all drinking craft beer, talking politics and watching the live broadcast of the senator’s speech,” Wilson wrote in London’s The Guardian.
“Granted, crunchy Portland is deep in Sanders’ heartland. Nevertheless, it was notable that no one I talked to had the least misgivings about Sanders calling himself a socialist; almost all were happy to identify with the term. Few were doctrinaire, many differed in the details of what socialism actually means, but almost all were attracted to Sanders as someone whose policies might alleviate the everyday suffering of those not part of the country’s tiny wealthy elite.”
Said one supporter named Chris, who thinks the word “socialism” has been polluted by fear campaigns, had a message for his right-leaning fellow Americans: “Don’t make a good idea sound crazy just because your bad idea wants to marginalize so many people.”
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article32986314.html#storylink=cpy
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