What's the deal with Vermont?

[Badger]

I seem to recall in the late 80's or early 90's that, conversely to the yuppie (young urban professionals), Vermont was encountering a huge influx of 'marpies' (middle-aged rural persons) who were overwhelmingly well-educated social liberals who relocated from the big cities in New England. 20 years later they are setting the local cultural trends and mores rather than being newcomers to town.

[Badger]

Antonio, how many times have you been to Vermont? (hint: living there in Atlasia doesn't count)

I was there a few weeks ago and believe me the people there are communists

If they were indeed communists you'd be rotting in a prison cell right now.

You know as much about communism as I do about neurosurgery.

I'd rather you perform brain surgery on me than have DWTL write my term paper on communism.

[Badger]

Just because Vermont is not a communist state does not mean it does not have communist ideals.  Geez people really need to get a clue

Did your parents run over your head when you were a baby? Nothing Vermont has ever supported has even been remotley communistic. Nothing. Maybe there is some slight socialism in some of their politics but even then I highly doubt that more than 10% of people in Vermont think that way.

OMG GUYZ SO COMMUNIST:

Relax, dude. DWTL has drank too much of the right wing kool aid that ANYTHING the government does beyond the military, border patrol and court system is "socialist/communist/facist". They don't understand the actual meanings of those terms and don't care either. It's just a way of saying "we hate Obama and liberalism" because, frankly, they've got nothing to offer but more of W's policies under a new candidate's face (TBD).

[Badger]

It would be so easy to switch the state if we had enough people move there.  I think libertarians were trying to make New Hampshire an all libertarian state, a shift in only 68292 votes would have allowed a republican to win in 2008 - not a lot compared to the other states that went 54%  for Obama.  Democrats were smart to settle in these states, they were low hanging fruit that could easily be taken over and secure easy electoral votes.  I know its not as simple as that, but still...

Yes, that is exactly the reason most people moved to Vermont in the last 20 years: To secure its 3 electoral votes for the Democratic Party.