I live in Vermont, and I can assure you that the state is full of wing nut socialist liberal dweebs.
However , in the Northeast corner of the State, there is a conservative enclave.
We often joke that we live in the conservative Gulag, where there are wide open spaces, and you can shoot your guns in your own back yard.
Because of its park like qualities, Vermont is full of outside people who have moved into the state and its cities over the past 30 years.
They share little or nothing with old timey Vermonters. In the mid 1970's and early 1980's these back to the land hippies and yippies took political control of many of our local villages and towns
They are emotional, analytically challenged, peaceful unless you try to steal their TOFU, and against big government, against capitalism, against development, against police, against the military, against old timey farmers, against nuclear power, against traditional family values, against Christianity,and against each other.
I have yet to discover if they are for anything but their own selfish goals.
They perpetuate the selfish points of view which exemplify the Timothy O'Leary generation
Generally they could not fit a round peg into a round hole, and make repetative attempts to put round pegs in square holes and square pegs in round holes. Its a wonder they are able to reproduce.
If they do reproduce, they have few parenting skills, and the kids grow up with little structure. The solution to this is home schooling. Many are single parents, Many are gay couples as parents. The kid never grows up until the parent dies, and maybe not then.
Burlington is known as "Boulder East" where liberalism is an assumed ideology and all the coffee shop jokes are about red necks and Bush conservatives. When last gifted by such a joke, I excused myself, got up and left. There sense of false superiority and unjustified arrogance is underwhelming.
To top it all off they have little or no respect for the many Vermonters who serve in our guard and military in Afghanistan and Iraq. They offer no praise and the only time you hear from them is when they shiveringly point out the fact that one of our native sons has died in combat. They are the nation's sick joke.
To Them, Howard dean is a moderate centrist.
Bernie Sanders is a political sage.
They all cluster around their fires at night practising the arcane arts of non analytical devination on the future of the entire world as if any one, or group of them mattered. They do not. They are on the rail siding of life waiting for a train that will never come.
Why do I live here?
I am thinking about moving to Texas.
But I feel beteer after writing all this!!!!