Bernie for Burlington
Encounters with Mayor Sanders.
This week: a conversation with Dan Chiasson about Vermont’s Bernie Sanders. Find it at our site or wherever you go for podcasts.
In Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician, the poet Dan Chiasson takes us back to Bernie Sanders’s emergence as a local politician in Vermont, where Sanders was mayor of Burlington. Chiasson grew up in Burlington, and on this week’s show, he describes how much of his own life relates to the Bernie story:
Bernie has always had one overriding message, which is that if we get the economics right, if we get economic justice right, then a lot of wonderful side outcomes will ensue, including access to happiness and pleasure. We very much felt growing up in Burlington that these little, marginal, fractional, often inexpensive or even free initiatives that Sanders put in were just giving us an enhanced feeling of happiness, of civic happiness and pride.
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This was great. It brought me back to the late 60's. Bernie is his own person, but he was part of that counterculture. Like me, and many others I suppose he had personal circumstances, especially growing up in New York City- the outer boroughs- as well that catapulted him out of that environment and that threatened to choke so many of us. Thank you for this;.it gave me insight and hope. Amazing Bernie. And thank you for keeping on ❤️.