2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPhoto: Bernie's Homemade Hippie House in the Woods
More great pics here;
http://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2016/02/bernie-sanders-vermont-000610?slide=2
thereismore
(13,326 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)We used to buy 2 cent pieces of bubblegum there when I was a kid.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Really good job
PufPuf23
(8,789 posts)Duval
(4,280 posts)the chickens hanging in the back yard reminded me of her store. She put my Dad through UNC and Med School with her store.
Just loved the picture, cali!
cali
(114,904 posts)Another spot there.
draa
(975 posts)Back when Bernie moved to Vermont he would cook over something his friends called a "Berno."
A Berno is a coffee can stuffed with a roll of toilet paper soaked in lighter fluid. A homemade can of Sterno if you will.
Boudica the Lyoness
(2,899 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)Bernie gets the lives lived here, the struggles of working folks.
ieoeja
(9,748 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)handmade34
(22,756 posts)even though a Republican, this very sweet speech by Calvin Coolidge has always tugged at my heartstrings...
I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the Union, and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont
Vermont was a perfect place for Bernie to call home...
(my late husband talked of parties at Bernie's house in Stannard -before me)
cali
(114,904 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)"this is what America will look like after Sanders is done..."
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)it will look like when he is done.
Nothin' but whitey.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)And thanks for Bernie, by the way. It took Vermont to put him where he is and that's appreciated.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)Looks like the house we built in the 70's, the house my son built last year, and the houses many dear old friends still live in.
So homesick for the Pacific Northwest right now.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)jg10003
(976 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)They pretty much scoured the countryside of Vermont to get nasty comments about Bernie from Republicans. Gotcha piece.
Ugly slams at BERNIE from a state that has elected and re-elected him time after time.
A couole of positive statements but mostly negative views that, based on electin reviews represent a conservative bunch not typical of Vermont. I base my statement on Bernie's record of re-elections.
Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)If there was anything on the side of the people who were getting walked on, Bernie was always there, I don't care if there were 10 people or thousands. --Dexter Randall, a dairy farmer for Organic Valley (who got shafted by Reagan and nearly lost his farm) (photo caption at the link)
Photo #12 is a gem! Captioned: "Benches with political party labels of Democrats, Republicans and Sandernistas in front of a General Store and gas station on North Hero Island." Wonderful pic! Needs to go viral!
Wonderful photos! Thanks so much for posting this! I really enjoyed it.
I totally relate to hippie houses and organic farmers. Gun culture, not so much. I do see the connection between hunters and nature. I don't see why they have to have assault weapons to take down a deer. Some weapons have only one purpose: war or mass murder. I think there is serious cultural disconnect between true hunters--people who live close to nature (whatever I may think of their hunting method)--and the godawful gun violence in overcrowded urban areas by both the police and ordinary citizens. Neither culture seems to understand the other--big disconnect that has turned our cities into war zones--with, for instance, hunters advocating quite insane "gun rights" and politicians pandering to this rule of mayhem (mostly because of NRA $millions into lobbying and into their campaigns, and into propaganda).
Difficult, difficult issue! At least Sanders sees all sides of it and may thereby be a good mediator. (He will also have an impact by reforming the very corrupt campaign contribution and lobbying system.) On the gun issue, he is very like a high wire artist with one foot on the wire, the other foot dangling in air and arms wheeling for balance. But that's perhaps where a political leader should be on such a divisive issue. Hunters aren't evil--far from it. Easy weapons to massacre kindergarteners is the black hole we are falling into over "gun rights." A tightrope act over a black hole! That's guns in America! We are in danger of being sucked down into a place from which no light can emerge. Sanders has found the right balance on many issues. Maybe he will on this one as well, coming from this old-fashioned, homey-hippie-Vermont farmer culture.