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In reply to the discussion: Where was your candidate in 1963? [View all]BannonsLiver
(15,612 posts)16. is that him fleeing Brooklyn
About the same time?

primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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In 1963 Bernard Sanders was on the only hard core Marx-Leninist (pro-Soviet communist)
The Valley Below
Jan 2020
#5
You asked where candidates were in 1963. It was pointed out where Sanders was. Problem?
George II
Jan 2020
#10
Well, he wrote this around that time (but later said he voted for JFK, at 19 years old!):
George II
Jan 2020
#17
That's correct. There was an excerpt from an interview he did around 1985 when he said....
George II
Jan 2020
#20
...even if one flees the hard work of the real civil rights movement to move to...
ehrnst
Jan 2020
#22
Well, that was a couple years after mine had participated in an anti-segregation sit-in
LongtimeAZDem
Jan 2020
#27