Reddit reviews We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/new-book-bernie-sanders-was-kicked-off-vermont-commune-for-loafing/2016/04/20/

here you go. The below is the book that the article is based on.

http://www.amazon.com/We-Are-As-Gods-America/dp/1610392256

The source is from this book about the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s.

Newspaper source

You can read the book if you want. https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-As-Gods-America/dp/1610392256?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

We Are As Gods by Kate Daloz
https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-As-Gods-America/dp/1610392256

It’s just a book. Anyone can write a book claiming anything. I didn’t present this info as conclusive proof of anything. Take it or leave it.

> If we assume the most seemingly relevant application of the term — that it refers to holding steady, full-time employment — then one might fairly say it applies to Bernie Sanders. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Chicago in 1964, Sanders primarily worked a series of odd jobs while attempting to get his political career off the ground and a Politico article observed that he didn’t collect his first steady paycheck until he was an elected official pushing 40 years old.

> Sanders rented a small brick duplex at 295 1/2 Maple Street that was filled with not much furniture and not much food in the fridge but stacks of checked-out library books and scribbled-on legal pads.

> “The electricity was turned off a lot,” Barnett said. “I remember him running an extension cord down to the basement. He couldn’t pay his bills.”

> He worked some as a carpenter, although “he was a shitty carpenter,” [Liberty Union party member John] Bloch told me. “His carpentry,” [Liberty Union member Danny] Morrisseau said, “was not going to support him, and didn’t.”

> “He was always poor,” Sandy Baird, another old friend, told me in Burlington.



snopes


his fucking resume I know high school kids with stronger resume than this

this whole article is just sad

this book has accounts of him being kicked out of the commune for being lazy

https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-As-Gods-America/dp/1610392256/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1461143961&sr=1-1&keywords=we+are+as+gods

Kate Daloz

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/new-book-bernie-sanders-was-kicked-off-vermont-commune-for-loafing/2016/04/20/

Here is an article talking about it.

Why is the Daily Wire trash? It's quoted from a book and the direct quote is attributed to author Kate Daloz. This isn't some reporting based on an anonymous source. What if I bought the book, scanned the page in question, and linked to that? What would you say then? Call Kate Daloz a liar?

Again, why do you find it so unbelievable that a man whose first real job came when he was 40 would get kicked out of a commune for being lazy?