Мои поздравления всем нормальным людям в Америке.
Vermont, the state that zigs when the nation zags, has something up its collective sleeve. It's about to send the first avowed socialist to the Senate since . . . well . . . never.
"There have been populist senators who were pretty radical guys but never a guy who says, 'I'm a socialist,' " says Eric Foner, a historian at Columbia University.
написала "Вашингтон Пост" про Сандерса.
Bernie Sanders is an unreconstructed 1930s socialist and proud of it.
Как же славно! Вот он, из семьи еврейских иммигрантов, как в старые добрые времена, разумеется -
Frankie Paquette, 63, asks you to sit in his kitchen while his wife, Millie, knits. He's a wiry millworker whose mill moved south of the border three years ago. He subsists on odd jobs and no health insurance, hoping to limp to 65 and Medicare. He's talked with Sanders twice and the congressman's office helped him obtain college loans for his sons.
"Bernie's got really crazy ideas," Paquette says. "But he's for the little guy who ain't got three dollars for gasoline in February. That's me and I'm for him".
Плохо одно: что позиции демократов в Сената зависят от самого омерзительного человека в американской политике - Либермана.
Это еще может аукнуться.