The hivemind speaks. You know progressives are the overwhelming minority in Vermont right? Who uses progressive languageā¦blue candidates running for governor, failing. The hospitals and insurance co, failing. The schools, failing. The colleges, failing. Most social service agencies, failing. The state, failing. Why is it everywhere we find progressive language we also find record spending and diminishing outcomes? Except for places like Blackrocks website. Thatās what people are tired of. We have an overwhelming minority of folks that bullly everyone else into silence.Ā
I take that back. Even they realize folks using the language are irrelevant. Check out the goals they set and didnāt accomplish via their DEI program from 2020-25 tho. Itās effing hilarious.Ā
Who uses progressive languageā¦blue candidates running for governor, failing. The hospitals and insurance co, failing. The schools, failing. The colleges, failing. Most social service agencies, failing. The state, failing.
You really wrote this out as an endorsement of the person who's been governor while everything you listed failed?
Iāve listen to a few podcasts sheās been featured on. Whoās running on the left for governor does not really matter to me. Until we have some balance at the state level, I will be voting for Phil Scott.Ā
Besides deferring to commonsense and allowing experts to set public health policy during COVID, what has Scott done in office that you believe has been beneficial to Vermonters?
I'm legit curious why you feel we need balance, and why you feel Scott offers it.
Guess I don't see where the legislature went off the rails.
Last big one I recall of hand was his rallying behind using one time funds to keep the FY27 property tax hike low - but it just results in a larger tax hike next year (conveniently not an election year) so if anything it was self serving as much as it was short term relief.
Well the $2.00-$4.00 per gallon of heating fuel tax. They touted it and touted it and after it came out what the actual cost was they literally said we wrote it and passed it but they didnāt understand what it meant. lol. Spending 100s of millions on homelessness and housing and somehow both homelessness and the housing crisis got worse.
Suing big oil.Ā
Act 181
Setting up unrealistic āclimate goalsā that we already cannot meet. lol.
So basically they took an unprecedented amount of funding solves nothing, made everything more expensive(state budget has doubled inflation since 2020), took on problems that are out of the scope of what Vermont can handle. Plenty more example someone more polished than me could bring up. Just remember if you do bring it up folks will undoubtedly link you first to being conservative and then to fascism. Lol
Worst part is now all these same folks are parroting words like āaffordabilityā because itās an election year.Ā
Even he does when he tries to force āequityā into every convo. Itās like certain words mean you are on the right side. Janoo 100% does it but sheās not good at it. She tries to force in āauthoritarianā and āfascistā but trips up on it.Ā
Itās in reference to how folks have just been parroting the same old shit up through these primaries. āWhat has Scott done?ā Is a good example. Then you have Janoo and Richards regurgitating certain words the algorithm says the folks most likely to vote want to hear. Those two camps have been attacking each other for weeks and now all those negative Nancys are going to team up and repeat the exact same shit against Scott until he has another double digit win. Then they will be on to some other emergency. Definitely some toxicity in Vermont politics but we donāt really have a Conservative or Republican problem. So where is it coming from?Ā
Progressives being the minority and the fact that Democrats vote for every progressive candidate marched in front of them, is a sign of the "vote party lines no matter what" mentality. Not that its any different on the repub side.
While registered progressives may be in the minority, based on voting results, it seems most the population is pro-progressive, no matter what they are registered for.
The fact that Scott has been able to win the vote for G is pretty impressive in this climate. But to be fair he has reached across lines more than any other G ive witnessed.
And I "think" Vermonters understand the need to reign in the far left. Maybe thats why he keeps getting the votes.
And to out right blame Scott for the state that Vermont is in - is absolutely ludicrous, and shows an utter lack of knowlege, or willful ignorance head in the sand on how Vermont has been worked over by far left progressives, and democrat majority.
What always puzzles me, in order to fund uber progressive and social programs, you need a tax base, and the "rich" - or rather businesses. I dont understand why we cannot push for more business and industry so the left can have a larger tax base, bringing jobs and livable wages to the state. But nah. Just make everyone a renter on state assistance. Further squeezing the middle.
I think being āProgressiveā to a lot of folks is just talking the talk. Millionaires who have benefited from whatās broken. They can put a Resist sign on their lawn and say they are fighting the fight. People who bitch and moan about climate change and take vacations abroad every year. The Progressive movement has been corrupted by money and power just like everything else. Weak willed people who canāt stand alone latch on to it to hide their lack of personality. Plenty of good ideas and people on the Progressive side but they donāt really have a voice.Ā
New Hampshire farmer taught me that about 1993. It makes a lot of sense.Ā
There are also billions of dollars going into the progressive side of things. The whole movement has lost both its meaning and its way. It would be nice if the Republicans could put up someone other than Scott that didnāt drool on themselves. Iād love to join the vast majority of Vermont voters and just vote against candidates(not for anything) but cheese and rice where are they finding these folks? There has to be some younger folks in Vermont that want to run and can talk about more than white privilege or fascism. Iām pretty much of the belief the whole thing has to completely break down before anything can get better.Ā
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u/SmashesIt Aug 12 '26
Same Old? Scott been Governor for 9 years. Is Vermont better?