The Daily Beast has uncovered at least two interviews from Vermont papers in which Bernie Sanders compared the plight of Vermont workers to chattel slavery.
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If a worker at Vermont Marble has no say about who owns the company he works for and that major changes can take place without his knowledge and consent, how far have we really advanced from the days of slavery, when black people were sold to different owners without their consent?
In the mid-70s, Bernie Sanders led the Liberty Union Party, a socialist party native to Vermont. As the service industry exploded in the state as manufacturing faded, Sanders concern was that workers without the power to control businesses existed in conditions akin to slavery.
Basically, today, Vermont workers remain slaves in many, many ways.
The problem comes when we end up with an entire state of people trained to wait on other people.
Over the last five years since Sanders first declared his run for president, his past record has avoided close scrutiny. The Clinton campaign seemed to choose this path deliberately. As Sanders nears front-runner status at least in several early states, if not nationally, it appears the media is ready to dig.