Bernie Sanders, whose appeal seemingly rests on his appealing to his audience’s sense of victimhood, made statements when he was launching his burgeoning political career that stretched the bounds of credulity, including recently unearthed comments in which he compared workers in his home state of Vermont to black slaves.
As The Daily Beast reports, in 1976 Sanders “told a local newspaper that the sale of a privately held mining company by its founders harkened back to ‘the days of slavery, when black people were sold to different owners without their consent,’ and compared the service economy to chattel slavery.” That comment was made in response to the announced sale of the Vermont Marble Company to a Swiss conglomerate. Sanders ranted:
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