Vermont’s governing class is destroying the state it claims to serve
04-06-2026 22:14 via vtdigger.org

Vermont’s governing class is destroying the state it claims to serve

This commentary is by Matt Swenson, who is the founder of Omnidex Solutions, a risk diagnostics company. He lives in Vermont.Vermont is dying by its own hand.Not dramatically, not all at once, but steadily, in the way ideological rot always works. It hollows things out from the inside while the surface still looks functional. The farms are still here. The mountains are still here. But the people who built this place — who worked it, paid for it, defended it — are being pushed out by
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