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[LakeArenal]

1. I missed it. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Renew Deal]

3. It's part of his platform

Just kidding. Some crazy thing he said a long time ago. And since we know his opinions never change, he probably thinks it now.

[uponit7771]

8. +1

[HarlanPepper]

2. I wonder if Bloomberg will bring it up tonight?

[NoDakLinda]

35. I wonder if Bloomberg will bring it up tonight?

Or maybe he will tell us why those women sued him?

During his years as a contributor to the Freeman in the late 1960s and early 1970s Bernie Sanders’ wrote (what is now) a fifty-year-old 70s-era "tongue-in-cheek" essay (Bernie was a kid himself) so the story is getting a little long in the tooth.

The same story was published during his first presidential bid, I thought that everyone had read about it (or heard some distorted version of it) by now?

In a letter to the editor published in the Freeman in 1969 Bernie wrote, “With regard to the schools that you send your children to, are you concerned that many of these institutions serve no other function than to squash the life, joy and curiosity out of kids.”

Oh! I think it’s far worse than that.

He wrote that, “the basic function of the schools is to set up in children patterns of docility and conformity—patterns designed not to create independent and free adults, but adults who will obey orders, be ‘faithful’ uncomplaining employees, and ‘good’ citizens.”

Too true, it’s Harlan County USA all over again. Keep them trapped in poverty so they will go into the mines - or the military.

In an attempt at humor Bernie wrote an essay that was tongue-in-cheek “In Vermont, at a state beach, a mother is reprimanded by Authority for allowing her 6-month-old daughter to go about without her diapers on. Now, if children go around naked, they are liable to see each other’s sexual organs, and maybe even touch them. Terrible thing! If we raise children up like this it will probably ruin the whole pornography business, not to mention the large segment of the general economy which makes its money by playing on people’s sexual frustrations.”

Does he know what tongue-in-cheek means? I hope he never reads Lolita. It's a 1955 "tongue-in-cheek erotic novel" written by Russian American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. Vladimir Nabokov was a teacher of languages at Stanford, California. Later, he joined as a professor of literature at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. Being a multi-talented person, Nabokov was famous for his plays, funny sketches for 'New Yorker', criticism and stirring short stories. His research in entomology, especially the discovery of "Nabokov's wood nymph" made him famous at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. Nabokov has so much talent that it's unbelievable.

[LanternWaste]

4. My guess is it will be rationalized...

by the very same who were sO-veRy-conCErneD (!!!!) about simple gaffes, thus illustrating rather accurately, the concept of cognitive dissonance.

[LakeArenal]

7. Very true.

[NurseJackie]

6. I know. It is sick. I'll never look at him the same way again. It's disgusting!

Toddler touching each others genitals to insulate themselves from porn. What the fuckity fuck!

I know. It is sick. I'll never look at him the same way again. It's disgusting!

Can you believe that there are folks out there DEFENDING and EXCUSING this shit? I swear I want to VOMIT. The very sight of his face disgusts me now!

It's not as though this was an "invasive thought" ... but the fact that he carefully considered this before putting it out there... I'm just... OH GOOD GOD!

He needs to withdraw now. Right now. Immediately.

For many people... I'll bet this disgustingness will supercede the "no matter who" mantra. You just know that the GOP has the commercials all lined up and ready to play nonstop. I suspect that this news is a game-changer that for many mothers and grandmothers will be even worse than "Socialism".

[7wo7rees]

10. Can you actually believe there are people believing this from the Bloomberg

News? Holy shite!! Seriously!!

[Squinch]

11. How about MotherJones? Do you trust them?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-freeman-sexual-freedom-fluoride/

This shit has been out there for a long time. I knew he said crazy shit like this. And so, apparently, did the guy from Bloomberg's campaign. Why didn't you?

[NurseJackie]

13. Well... because... REASONS! And because... BERNIE!

Oh well... what can ya do? Bernie's supporters certainly are loyal to a fault, no matter what new information is presented, it's quickly and easily dismissed and rejected if it doesn't comport with everything else they think they know.

Anywayyyy... I'll never be able to look at him again (not without these disgusting things coming into my mind).

[Squinch]

14. The opposition research Ken Eichenwald is talking about scares me. Lots

of bad shit is coming out about all the front runners right now. If there is something republicans would find even "juicier" than this shit, it must be pretty bad. And the fact that they are holding it in reserve terrifies me.

I feel like we're walking toward one of those traps with the hole with the spikes in the bottom and the leaves artfully strewn over the top so you can't see it.

[NoDakLinda]

38. How about MotherJones? Do you trust them?

Mother Jones magazine has no connection to mother jones the union organizer, and Michael Moore said he was fired as editor because of an article on Flint Michigan they didn't want to publish.

[7wo7rees]

9. Just really glad that Bloomberg and his media are getting everything

Out there!! Thank God!
"drippingsarcasm"

[Squinch]

12. It's been out there for a long time. It's just that his followers were not

interested in knowing about it.

Hence all the comments about Bernie not having been properly vetted.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-freeman-sexual-freedom-fluoride/

[Buzz cook]

33. That was the seventies alright

Lots of fuzzy thinking acting like important theories. Isolation boxes and pyramid power.

Sexual suppression has been a boogie for centuries. Seems almost quaint now though.

[Doremus]

25. Yeah, even if they have to make it up. Good for you Bloomie, what a patriot.

[BusyBeingBest]

29. What was made up? This originally came from Mother Jones.

Do you think Repubs aren't going to make hay of this?

[honest.abe]

15. Sanders probably had some legitimate reason for saying and writing those things..

but when captured in a sound bite they do sound very weird.

Yes, good Bloomberg is getting all this crap out there before its too late.

[Act_of_Reparation]

16. You mean the same Mike Bloomberg who jokingly encouraged his female employees to blow a coworker?

Yeah. Good thing he's vetting Bernie.

For fuck's sake, people.

[Squinch]

17. But apparently, the fact that Bernie said it a long time ago means it doesn't matter.

Strange how that same criterion is not applied to Bloomberg.

[Act_of_Reparation]

19. Did I say it doesn't matter?

I remember that being your position, not mine.

[Squinch]

21. So you DO think it's a problem that Bernie said these things?

[Act_of_Reparation]

22. OF. COURSE.

[OhZone]

18. That's terrible -

but was the coworker a todler?

[Act_of_Reparation]

20. You know what they say.

Anything said before the word "but" is a bunch of horseshit.

[aikoaiko]

23. He was talking about the hippie idea of letting kids run around naked and

demystifying, desexualizing, and destigmatizing the human body.

The hippies were probably right.

And there were no rape fantasies. He was drawing a fictionalized image of people who desperately unhappy with their empty gendered lives.

On both issues, he was not eloquent, but it wasn't disgusting if you read the whole written pieces.

[boston bean]

24. Toddlers know nothing of sex. Damnit.

[aikoaiko]

27. Exactly, but they can learn about their bodies and bodies of others.

That was the point of nudism movements.

Damnit, Gumbie.

[boston bean]

30. This is fucking sick.

Go talk about sex and porn in the same sentence with toddlers with some else. I’m busy vomiting my guts out.

[aikoaiko]

31. SMDH.

[rzemanfl]

32. First day here and already you got one. Good work!

[Squinch]

37. Two.

[rzemanfl]

36. Now two! You're on a roll! n/t

[still_one]

34. Dr. Sanders has always be on the forefront of alternative medicine

https://time.com/4249034/bernie-sanders-alternative-medicine-cancer/