{"id":28726,"date":"2019-05-10T23:53:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T04:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28726"},"modified":"2019-05-10T23:53:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T04:53:53","slug":"briefly-old-bernie-sanders-papers-paint-him-as-full-of-self-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28726","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Old Bernie Sanders papers paint him as full of self-doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Bernie-Sanders-mayor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28727\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Bernie-Sanders-mayor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Bernie-Sanders-mayor.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Bernie-Sanders-mayor-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bernie Sanders\u2019 papers from the period when he was mayor of Burlington, Vt., are public now and the left-wing magazine Mother Jones has had someone go through those papers and extract some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2019\/05\/bernie-sanders-brutally-honest-mayoral-memos\/?fbclid=IwAR3jWhZncEGHxGU-Y5GXEH5SHootYPqja227mQmad2nmRLcaIHl6VJh_HS0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fascinating personal insights<\/a> about Sanders. It\u2019s very rare to get such a window into the personal lives of public figures while they\u2019re still alive. The article paints a picture of a man full of personal angst and self-doubt, and it shows his personal life to have been a mess. It always shocks me that a person can know his personal life is a disaster but still believe he should dictate how others must live their lives. (And this applies to every politician in the coercive political system, not just Sanders.) I have little interest in the politics of this article, but the psychological insights are amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders\u2019 papers from the period when he was mayor of Burlington, Vt., are public now and the left-wing magazine Mother Jones has had someone go through those papers and extract some fascinating personal insights about Sanders. 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