3) Bernie's 1960s are not really the Woodstock experience as seen on TV. Sanders was born in 1941 -- five years before the start of the Baby Boom -- and the choices that he made in life reflected that. While the hypocrisy of racial discrimination and the Cold War drove him into radical politics as an undergrad at the University of Chicago from 1960-64, he had little use for some of the counterculture that was coming later in the decade. He once told a class on the 1960s at the University of Vermont: "I remember once going to party and there were as many people there as there were here, a large room, and… everybody was acting kind of strange and I found out that I was the only one in the room at that time who was not on LSD… the only person in the entire room who was not on acid."