Bernie Tours His New Book on 'Revolution,' With a Stop in Philadelphia
On Monday, as I headed to a Bernie Sanders event at the Philadelphia Free Library on a crisp, cloudless night, I encountered a short man with smudged glasses handing out flyers outside the venue. There to drum up tickets for a documentary on the Men’s Rights Movement, a minor community of American males besieged by a mainstream social order deaf to the quiet ways in which they are oppressed, he sought out kindred spirits willing to spend $12 on an evening in the suburbs learning why men need more compassion. Inside, a round-faced woman in her early 20s sat in the front row. She had “Bernie” buttons on the lapels of her grey pea coat and a copy of Our Revolution, the new memoir/ manifesto Bernie was in town to promote, open on her lap.
“A year ago all the groups wouldn’t listen to me,” she said of the young Democrat gatherings in her hometown outside the city. “So of course now I have all the info I need to show them what we should have been taking about all along, before it was too late.”
Continue reading "Bernie Tours His New Book on 'Revolution,' With a Stop in Philadelphia " at...