The fire is spreading': Bernie Sanders is the Katniss in Nevada's Hunger Games
As if it was straight out of your square uncle’s cockeyed fever dream, one of the six Bernie Sanders offices in Las Vegas, Nevada, sits in a decrepit strip mall, provocatively rubbing up against a weed dispensary. Well, not exactly a dispensary in the traditional sense. The website for the Higher Power Cannabis Church describes “a congregation and members that seek inspiration and insight from all major world religions … Through our shared search for a HIGHer power, we have come to believe that cannabis is a miracle plant with many therapeutic and medical benefits.”
The strip mall, which faces the campus of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas on the opposite side of a bustling thoroughfare, was mostly dead, save for a few skateboarders, lunchtime patrons trying to get food at a nearby taco shop, and two stragglers smoking cigarettes outside the recently shuttered, cheekily named Cheers Bar & Grill. At this Cheers, no one knew my name and I was happier for it. The cannabis church received no parishioners that I noticed, despite their website listing daily hours of 11am to 7pm.
The Sanders office, though, was full of life. Young, eager kids cycled in and out, carrying stacks of paper and door hangers. I noticed a birthday cake on a table in the back of the office. As someone who finds it near impossible to turn down a slice of cake, I asked if we were going to cut into the damn thing while I was there. “No, she’s not here yet,” I was told. “But there’s coffee cake.” I politely declined. Coffee cake and birthday cake have as much in common as Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, the two candidates who have thus far re-energized the moribund American electorate.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/18/bernie-sanders-supporters-nevada-caucuses-election-2016-hillary-clinton
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