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Puzzleheaded_Stay429 t1_jaiwn6u wrote

Reply to comment by TheBugHouse in A questions to Vermonters by RZRPRINCESS

Sorry to see you getting downvotes because that's how it was. Fiscally conservative, socially liberal. I know that sounds impossible, but it happened. If you weren't here then you could find that really hard to understand.

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Dangerous_Mention_15 t1_jaj4wto wrote

I grew up here and that was very accurate. The joke was that Howard Dean was our best Republican governor (because he was centrist and worked well with both parties). Now it's all about idealism, virtue signaling, and screwing the degenerate deporables outside of Burlington/Montpelier/Norwich so that finally they can live in a civilized manner.

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Smeedge_Kilgannon t1_jakx402 wrote

He was the 2nd person ever to be cancelled for his war cry. Paul Rubins was the first.

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Glad-Palpitation292 t1_jak5rhy wrote

It seems like "fiscally conservative" usually means, "I get social security and medicare, a property tax prebate, my acreage is in Current Use, and I think it's a zero sum game, so T.S. for you."

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Smeedge_Kilgannon t1_jakx0fg wrote

And it seems like "socially liberal" means you have the common sense of a Peter Pan type that never grew up.

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