Bernie Sanders shaped this small city, and it gave him a moonshot to the national stage

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Burlington has shaped Bernie Sanders just as much as Sanders has shaped Burlington — so much so that it’s hard to consider one without the other. No other presidential contender has such a long, symbiotic relationship with the city where they live.

Strolling with her son by the lake, she spotted the telltale crown of flyaway hair. Bernie Sanders was sitting at a table with business people, eating an ice cream cone.

The Church Street Marketplace is a pedestrian mall and the site of festivals in Burlington, Vt., home to presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.As he drives along North Avenue or College Street in his 10-year-old Chevy Aveo, he sees a city that reflects his worldview, where wealth is modest, public space is cherished, and residents are liberal, engaged and collectively powerful enough to counter big-money interests.

In 2009, Sanders moved from the working-class South End near downtown to a four-bedroom, vinyl-sided colonial in a more detached, suburban part of the city called the New North End, a neighborhood carved from forest in the 1950s for ranch homes, cul-de-sacs and big backyards.

Mattison has complicated feelings about Sanders, whom she supports for senator but not president. She says the fanatical following he cultivates has muffled political discourse in Burlington, to the point many Hillary Clinton supporters in 2016 felt they had to keep their views to themselves.

He never had to alter his rhetoric or face losing his popularity here. Neither Burlington nor the rest of Vermont has the deep racial and social tensions that caused the electorate to toggle right or left as it did in larger, more diverse cities — no visceral fights over school segregation, busing, gangs, violent crime, police brutality and racial profiling. Sanders could stay the left course — and largely did — without major blowback.

In Burlington, Sanders and other New York refugees turned their utopian visions into more practical efforts to improve cities Sanders moved to a one-bedroom apartment in the Old North End. He produced history videos about New England he sold to schools, and wrote freelance articles. He had broken up with the mother of his young son, Levi, and was figuring out how to make a life for himself.

When he parked his old beater in the mayor’s parking slot early on, he got a ticket, recalls his wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders. “The officer didn’t believe that could be the mayor’s car.”

 

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unfortunately BernieSanders did not shape America and America did not shape BernieSanders ..after 40 year...so very sad

The coat factory?

He’s been a pervert for decades

As Sanders drives through the city in his Chevy Aveo, he sees a city that reflects his world view, where wealth is modest, public space is cherished, and residents are liberal, engaged and collectively powerful enough to counter big money interests.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'shaped'. I think Sanders is a better choice for a presidential candidate than Sanders, and I think Sanders is a better choice for the city. I'm not saying that Sanders is a better candidate than Bernie. I'm saying that Sanders has a lot of potential

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