A Dividing of Paths: Reasons to Part with the United States

• The United States is quickly moving into a global monoculture based upon the urban/suburban ideal. Vermont has never had a place in this facet of the American Dream. What is more alarming perhaps is the fact that the Urban- Industrial complex is beginning to reach into the agrarian economy of Vermont in the form of corporate farms and big-business real estate. In order to preserve ourselves, we must facilitate a separation from the Urban-Industrial United States.
• As the urban US continues to grow in population, the agrarian US will continue to shrink in proportion. This will inevitably result in the continued loss of representation in the Federal government. In order for a democracy to exist in Vermont, we must become self governed.
• There is a quiet cultural war being waged in Vermont. Vermonters are being instructed to give up all the qualities that define the people of the Green Mountains. In order to make the world safe for suburban consumerism, Vermont is being forced into a mold of picturesque white houses and red barns. If this continues we will no longer be free or strong: we will be “quaint”. Let us save ourselves!