by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m too busy developing a novel to do the basic journalism necessary to give you some sense if this is even possible, but given his age — and the fact that he had an email address in the 80s! — it’s at least POSSIBLE Bernie Sanders was on Usenet in the 80s.
Someone should look into that. If we could dig up some of his old Usenet posts — if they exist — that would be quite illuminative as to his state of mind in the 80s.
Full disclosure — I, personally, was obsessed with Usenet in the early 90s while in college. So, if you look me up, you’ll find I was something of a crank even then. Just a younger, more passionate version of my current grump old middle aged guy crankdom. Lulz!
