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The most beautiful bridge in Vermont can be found in Proctor, constructed from pure white local marble:


The marble quarries created astonishing wealth for their owners. This part of VT was home to Big Business conservatives, union busters, & the Proctor family fiefdom, but not for long...

1930s Vermont: eugenicist Henry Perkins assigned his field researchers to "first, locate the inadequates in VT & second, find out why they exist." In 1931 a sterilization law was passed. The main groups affected: the poor, the disabled, French-Canadians, & Abenakis.
Laud the farmer who pickled but if he distilled alcohol or hung pelts in the kitchen, VT could sterilize him, forbid him to marry, or take his children

"As of this writing, Sanders, at 83 has begun his 4th term in the US senate. Whether he will remain in the Democratic Party fold is anybody's guess: at rallies during the spring of 2025, Sanders encouraged audiences in the tens of thousands to look for opportunities outside the corrupt two-party system."
So many of us want for those elusive opportunies to come to the fore without pitching a Communist-style curveball!

Bernie Sanders, the socialist mayor of an offbeat city in the 2nd smallest state in the union, rose to national prominence in a pair of long-shot presidential runs in 2016 & 2020. He's arguably the most influential leftist politician in the modern history of the nation, & the longest serving independent in U.S. congressional history.