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An image circulated via social media purported to offer a 1978 New Year's resolution offered by future U.S. Sen. and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, as solicited by a newspaper in his home state of Vermont: Sanders began his electoral political career with the newly formed Liberty Union Party in 1971, serving (unsuccessfully) as the party's gubernatorial candidate for Vermont in 1972 and 1976 and as its U.S. Senate candidate in 1972 and 1974. The circumstance that Liberty Union candidates never had any realistic chance of winning office provided them, in Sander's words, with the chance to get up and say exactly what they meant with no compromise. Sanders left the Liberty Union Party in October 1977, however, citing the party's failure to remain active, on a year-round basis, in the struggles of working people against the banks and corporations that own and control Vermont. It was around the time Sanders resigned from the Liberty Union Party that the Daily Herald newspaper of Rutland, Vermont, solicited him as one of the politicians, people in the news, [and] people in the street to answer the question What do you want to accomplish in 1978? Sanders' answer was, as reproduced above, published in the paper's Jan. 1, 1978 edition:
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