So both Politico and The Daily Mail wanted to blow our minds with their scoops on Bernie Sanders:
"Bernie Sanders Has a Secret"
"Bernie Sanders' very 1960s love life revealed - his first wife, the woman who had his son, and the sugar shack home where he lived as a 'revolutionary"
But I clicked and read both and I was amazed how much more I appreciate him for his life-long commitment to organizing, social justice and his exploration of ideas which were so much a part of a large segment of the Boomer generation. (Trust me. I selected my first college through reading "The Underground Guide to the College of Your Choice.")
He had (and still has) a love life. He had relationships that didn't work out. Scoundrel!
I appreciated the pics The Daily Mail had of his first wife and the mother of his son Levi, who we learn, are not the same person. Unbotoxed and white-haired, remarried/married, both with long working histories, rather down to earth, it seems.
Read the dirt Sanders' first wife wants to ditch on him:
'I really don't want to say much,' she said. 'All I can say is I believe in Bernie Sanders and I am a strong supporter.'
He struggled financially for a long time. He was not that good of a carpenter.
One anecdote stood out for me, in giving insight into how his comfort in talking to people was something he also had to struggle with:
"Early in his first campaign, Sanders would say later, he was so nervous during a radio interview the microphone picked up the sound of his knees knocking the table at which he was seated. “A strange thumping noise traversed the airwaves,” he would write in 1997 in Outsider in the House, the closest he has come to an autobiography. “And the few calls that came in expressed no doubt that this career was to be short-lived. ‘Who is this guy?’ one of the listeners asked.”
So go read all the tawdry details at these sites: