Inside the mind of Bernie Sanders: unbowed, unchanged, and unafraid of a good fight
The diplomatic overture was dispatched to Hu Yaobang, chairman of the Chinese Communist party, on 29 October 1981. A near-identical letter was sent to the Kremlin, for the attention of Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union.
Like an unconscious and uncontrollable force, our planet appears to be drifting toward self-destruction, the newly installed socialist leader of somewhere called Burlington wrote. He urged them in the strongest possible way to disarm militarily and begin immediate negotiations with other world leaders.
Bernie Sanders, the ardently leftwing mayor of Vermonts largest city, dispatched similar missives to Downing Street, the Élysée palace and the White House, before releasing a statement declaring: Burlingtonians cannot calmly sit back and watch our planet be destroyed with hundreds of millions of people incinerated.
The correspondence, unearthed by the Guardian, confirms what has long been said of Americas longest-serving independent member of Congress who, at the age of 73, recently launched a bid for the Democratic nomination for president. Bernie Sanders is unafraid of punching above his weight.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/19/bernie-sanders-profile-democrat-presidential-candidate?CMP=fb_us