Posted on 11/05/2023 3:32:43 PM PST by grundle
“I always thought Vermont was a liberal bastion if ever there was one. What gives?“
It’s not about politics. It’s about demographics.
Vermont ain’t the only state.
Vermont, where Libertarians vote Socialist.. It’s a strange state...
It’s mostly that Vermont does not have a demographic problem.
NH is pretty safe, too, and has the same gun policies.
Maine has been except for the recent mass shooting, but noticing that happened in a gun free zone is very telling.
They are. They are weird over there.
However, northern VT is reputed to be very conservative and gun friendly. As usual, it's the cities, such as they are.
Funny how everyone here has been in agreement except for one guy screaming the I-lost-the-argument code word “newbie”, guess I said something that hit too close to home for him
Nobody is taking to you
You’re part of the problems
And too brimming with virtue signaling to see it
Nobody thought like you do just 25 years ago
So bye
I’ve got two newsflashes for you dummy
One neither racism or slavery are the original sins of this nation or western civilization no matter how how much self righteousness you sate from that vain notion
It’s pure political power to demonize the most conservative whites in the nation by extension and you enable it despite your protestations
The forces that do that which you claim to not really support but do will not stop there
In case you failed to notice
This insatiable urge to breast beat over race or any identity based grievance is a neurotic cancer
A weakness of a lack of common sense and context
If it weren’t whites enslaving non whites you could care less
The same forces are parsing and demonizing your kin in Israel right now so enjoy your company
Clueless
Met a lot of native Vermonters when I used to ski there every winter. They sometimes seemed to be living up to a cliched Vermont way of talking but no, it was really the way they talked.
“Could be it’ll snow later on today. Then on the other hand, maybe t’won’t.”
Great people. They rode around on horses a lot in those days; probably still do. Honest and helpful as possible, while always minding their own business. I miss them.
Before Bernie Sanders, VT had an object of worship known as Scott Nearing (1883-1983). Radical, socialist, vegetarian, “ascetic” fellow who owned a large piece of farmland in VT, worth many millions of dollars. He’s the archtype. Typical leftist hypocrite.
His kind are everywhere, virtue signaling their respect for earth and all its creatures (equally), reading Foxfires and VT Country Store catalogues, pursuing crafts, beadwork, herbs and mushrooms, keeping bees, keeping warm with wood stoves, culturing yogurt, knitting with dog hair, tapping maple syrup — nothing wrong with such activities, by themselves, I practice several of them too — but they never shut up about their earth-olatry, their harmony with the universe, their degrees in sociology. It’s all a big heap of compost. Posturing as superior, they’re down with enslaving their inferiors. Of course they’re all affluent, and the wealth isn’t from selling pomanders.
There are pockets of them everywhere, VT is just a bigger pocket than most.
I personally know several dozen residents, nearly all women, many Bennington alum, and they are all faux, from their $300 sun hats down to the birkenstocks. Their families, the same. Not a Trump voter among them. No detectable Republicans. I highly doubt any of them own guns.
It’s a gorgeous state, but it attracts oddballs.
They are indeed nice.
Just..... a bit eccentric......
Curious fact: When Sanders first won election to Congress in 1990, he ran to the right(!) of the liberal Republican freshman incumbent, Peter Smith, on the issue of guns. Smith was for gun control, Sanders wasn’t. And he’s never lost a race since.
Didn’t know them that well, to know their eccentricities.
Good cooks. Forgot to say that.
Living in NH you encounter a LOT of Vermonters.
Some are great, conservative people.
Then there are the Berniebots.
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