Seems many of the folks in the Green Mountain State are pissed. Pissed at the president, pissed at their senators (Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders) and, most of all, pissed at the general direction in which this country is heading.
The Green Mountain Boys (and Girls) are talking seriously about seceding from the Union. Mind you, these aren’t a bunch of gun-toting neo-Nazi skinheads from Idaho. Vermonters are considered to be among the most liberal of all Americans.
The Vermont secessionists claim the US government is “an immoral enterprise—engaged in imperial wars, propping up corrupt bankers and super-sized corporations, crushing small businessmen, plundering the tax-base for corporate welfare, snooping on the private lives of citizens.”
If you’re a conservative, it’s hard to find much in the previous paragraph with which to argue. Liberal Vermonters are feeling as bullied and coerced by the federal government as the rock-ribbed conservatives of Idaho.
It’s hard to tell where this issue will lead. Like the Libertarian Party, it may end up as an amusing but largely irrelevant sideshow. Or, it may prove to be a durable meme capable of driving real change.
Meantime, boys and girls, pull out your (I hope, well-thumbed) copy of the Constitution and re-read Amendment X.
OK, OK. Here it is:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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The Secessionist Campaign for the Republic of Vermont
On Sunday (Jan 31) Time published The Secessionist Campaign for the Republic of Vermont. Read it.
The Green Mountain Boys (and Girls) are talking seriously about seceding from the Union. Mind you, these aren’t a bunch of gun-toting neo-Nazi skinheads from Idaho. Vermonters are considered to be among the most liberal of all Americans.
The Vermont secessionists claim the US government is “an immoral enterprise—engaged in imperial wars, propping up corrupt bankers and super-sized corporations, crushing small businessmen, plundering the tax-base for corporate welfare, snooping on the private lives of citizens.”
If you’re a conservative, it’s hard to find much in the previous paragraph with which to argue. Liberal Vermonters are feeling as bullied and coerced by the federal government as the rock-ribbed conservatives of Idaho.
It’s hard to tell where this issue will lead. Like the Libertarian Party, it may end up as an amusing but largely irrelevant sideshow. Or, it may prove to be a durable meme capable of driving real change.
Meantime, boys and girls, pull out your (I hope, well-thumbed) copy of the Constitution and re-read Amendment X.
OK, OK. Here it is:
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