Bernie Sanders Was Asked to Leave Hippie Commune for Shirking, Book Claims

Sanders' 'endless political discussion' distracted the hippies from their work
Blake Seitz
Free Beacon
Apr. 19, 2016

Bernie Sanders was asked to leave a hippie commune in 1971 for "sitting around and talking" about politics instead of working, according to a forthcoming book.

We Are As Gods by Kate Daloz, scheduled for release April 26, chronicles the rise and fall of the Myrtle Hill Farm in northeast Vermont. Daloz, a Brooklyn writer, was in a special position to write a history of Myrtle Hill: she was raised near the commune in a geodesic dome residence with an outhouse called the Richard M. Nixon Memorial Hall. Her parents were close acquaintances of the commune residents, who offered them tips about wilderness living.

In the summer of 1971, Myrtle Hill received a visitor: Bernie Sanders, aged 30, at the cusp of his political career with the socialist Liberty Union Party.

[...]Sanders spent his time at Myrtle Hill in "endless political discussion," according to Deloz.

Sanders' idle chatter did not endear him with some of the commune's residents, who did the backbreaking labor of running the place. Daloz writes that one resident, Craig, "resented feeling like he had to pull others out of Bernie's orbit if any work was going to get accomplished that day."

Sanders was eventually asked to leave. "When Bernie had stayed for Myrtle's allotted three days, Craig politely requested that he move on," Daloz writes.

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