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How did such a beautiful, scenic and at one time conservative state like Vermont, become such a Stalinist left wing black hole? My wife is from Middlebury and we’d visit Burlington when we went and that city is as evil as Ithaca. Your point of view is simply not welcome if it’s anything other than socialist, left wing nut job.

Starting about 30 years ago, wealthy Liberals from states like California, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts began buying up "cheap" vacation properties in Vermont, and over time, many of them decided to stay. Of course, they did so after destroying the economies and quality of life in their own states.

So, like locusts, they moved on to Vermont. Boutique businesses and upscale retail establishments have replaced the farms that used to support the state's economy, taxes have skyrocketed, and many of the older, more conservative crowd have moved away, leaving the liberal transplants to take over.

I recall what Woodstock, VT was like when I visited as a kid - a quaint country village with beautiful houses and old-world charm. Now it's Gay and Lesbian Central. These days, I feel like more of a foreigner when I enter Vermont that when I go to Canada.

Last summer, when we were in Middlebury, there was an anti-war protest on the town green on Saturday morning. Look more like a Woodstock reunion. Didn’t see anyone there under the age of 60. For a college town, that’s really pathetic.

Oh, I didn’t look to closely, but I also didn’t count more than 6 people there & none seemed very enthusiastic.