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In 1980 the wider world arrived in the dens of Vermonters statewide with the arrival of "Eleven Alive", Channel 11 WPIX out of NYC. Chiller Theater showed B-movies about severed hands with minds of their own. Kids were doing schoolyard impressions of Crazy Eddie, "His prices are IN-SANE" and the phlegmy spokesmsn for Carvel ice cream describing tantalizing ice cream cakes sold nowhere near Vermont (¬_¬") 🎂.

In 1970 Vermont passed Act 333, banning billboards, which has remained in effect to this day ( ˘͈ ᵕ ˘͈♡)
Soon after, Act 250 was passed: a land use and development law that aims to balance environmental protection with sustainable development. By 1980, with a surge in out-of-state developers looking to foil Act 250, Burlington residents backed Bernie Sanders to help save their turf from further urban sprawl (ㅅ´ ˘ `)

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.