Sanders: compulsory education, fluoridated water contribute to the erosion of 'personal freedom.'
From MotherJones
His early writings reflect a political worldview rooted in the fad psychology and anti-capitalist rhetoric of the era and infused with a libertarianesque critique of state power. Sanders feared that the erosion of individual freedom—via compulsory education, sexual repression, and, yes, fluoridated water—began at birth. And, he postulated, authoritarianism might even cause cancer.
Like many lefties of his time, he was heavily influenced by the Austrian psychologist Wilhelm Reich, a disciple of Freud whose work drew a connection between sexual repression and fascism.
Reich's most famous invention was a product called the "Orgone Box," a sort of hyperbaric oxygen chamber for orgasms. The device was supposed to expose users to "orgastic" energy circulating in the air. Such exposure, Reich theorized, could cure various maladies, including cancer.
In a 1969 essay for the Freeman called "Cancer, Disease and Society," Sanders, then 28, contended that conformity caused cancer by breaking down the human spirit and inflicting emotional trauma. He quoted liberally from Reich's 1948 book, The Cancer Biopathy, which, he noted, was "very definite about the link between emotional and sexual health, and cancer," and he walked readers through Reich's theory about the consequences of suppressing "biosexual excitation."
Then Sanders got to the point: "The above references, in no uncertain terms, state that you might very well be the cause of cancer." He continued:
What do you think it really means when 3 doctors, after intense study, write that 'of the 26 patients (who developed breast cancer) below 51 (years of age), one was sexually adjusted.' It means, very bluntly, that the manner in which you bring up your daughter with regard to sexual attitudes may very well determine whether or not she will develop breast cancer, among other things.
Theories about psychological causes of cancer were widespread in the mid-20th century, but never accepted within the scientific mainstream. According to the National Cancer Institute, psychological stress can have adverse health effects, but "the evidence that it can cause cancer is weak." The American Cancer Society says that "based on what we know now about how cancer starts and grows, there's no reason to believe that emotions can cause cancer or help it grow." Reich died in prison in 1957 after ignoring an order by the Food and Drug Administration to stop advertising his Orgone Box as a cancer cure.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-freeman-sexual-freedom-fluoride
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...where she graduated in '69.
"As the nation boiled over Vietnam, civil rights and the slayings of two charismatic leaders, Ms. Rodham was completing a sweeping intellectual, political and stylistic shift. She came to Wellesley as an 18-year-old Republican, a copy of Barry Goldwater’s right-wing treatise, “The Conscience of a Conservative,” on the shelf of her freshman dorm room. She would leave as an antiwar Democrat whose public rebuke of a Republican senator in a graduation speech won her notice in Life magazine as a voice for her generation."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/us/politics/05clinton.html?_r=0
Hillary Rodham speaking at rally at Wellesley College
Anything prior to that is unfair. 
...20-something Sanders was definitely fixated on sex.
Probably much less now.
It's been quite a list of desperate claims lobbed against a campaign that's two months old:
-He doesn't have enough money in his savings account
-He has dual citizenship with Israel
-He has "rape fantasies"
-He's apparently a "gun nut" to the extent that he was even held partially responsible for the Charleston massacre
-He doesn't care about black people
-And now, he believed weird things... in the 60's!
Did I miss anything?
But some here continue to bring up her "Goldwater Girl" days as if it's something very important.
I agree, it is ridiculous to bring up Sen Sanders' writings as a young man. It is also equally ridiculous to bring up HRC's teenage political leanings.
I tip my hat to you. 
I will happily vote for our Democratic candidate, whomever he or she is.
...that babies were born wearing dresses or pants, and that's how their sex was determined. 
