Im wondering why. I’m wondering why Kamala Harris, right after Trump rose from the stage in Butler, PA, fist in the air, urging “Fight, fight, fight,” chose to adopt that pugilistic language herself. Watching her campaign, I felt that while criticizing Trump incessantly, she also chose to take on and copy his worst habits. Like name calling, at the end. When everything is characterized as a fight, a me vs. you, an us vs. them dynamic is immediately set up.

There is an instant declaration that the other side has no value, no thoughts or questions worth considering, no possibly logical or reasonable points of view worth listening to. A declaration is made that the other side must be squashed and vanquished. Not worked with. Why does our so-called Democratic Republic have to be engaged in a never-ending civil war? I consider myself to be left leaning. The most bigoted people I have known in my life have been left-leaning Democrats.

I have known many people over the course of my lifetime who have tolerated zero questioning of the party line and who have kicked me out of their lives the minute I asked a valid question about a political narrative or if I should say something like: “You know, I’ve got about 10 books on my shelves that say the opposite.”  There are 2 sides to every story. There is always more information to be had. Jacqueline Brook, Putney.

Thank You to My Supporters. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all who supported me in the Addison District 2 (Leicester, Salisbury, Goshen, Ripton, Cornwall) House race. I am grateful to the people who trusted me with their vote, most notably those in my home town of Leicester and neighboring town of Salisbury, as well as those who contributed their time and financial resources to my campaign. 

While I am disappointed that I did not win, I am humbled by the outpouring of support received, the willingness of voters to engage in difficult dialogue and the desire to come together, often across party lines, in support of our common goal to restore balance to the Vermont House. I will remain dedicated to making Vermont an affordable place to live, work and raise a family. I hope my running amplified the message that Addison-2 wants thoughtful, realistic and affordable solutions to today’s pressing issues. I hope you will continue to make your voices heard.  Thank you again for supporting me in enacting meaningful change. Without your support, none of this would have been possible. Christine Stone, Addison-2.

My neighbor took offense. Best not to name neighbor, here without the name: My neighbor took offense that I put an American flag on my mailbox last night, because I mounted it so the flag flew out over her mailboxes. I knew I had to remount it better, but didn’t have time or the light to do it last night.

She texted me: “Will you please rearrange your flag so it isn’t on my side? That’s not representative of my ethics and values, especially as of this election, I fear for the future of my children and potential grandchildren who can’t access health care. I fear for immigrants who deserve a better life. I fear for the climate that will absolutely be bulldozed under the hideous excuse of a human that was just re-elected. Please respect our boundaries.”

I would like to speak my mind on this, since I see her text message is full of conflations. The American Flag stands for our republic, and our freedoms as individuals sharing a land, and government. One of the most important foundational freedoms is the freedom to speak one’s mind, to criticize government, each other and do so without fear. Soldiers have died to protect our Constitutional rights.

So, I point out here to her and anyone, this flag, representing her freedom to have and express her opinion DOES actually represent her values. The American Flag also stands for our right to be free in the manner of our personal choices, it reflects our Constitution that instructs government to serve everyones’ right to bodily autonomy, privacy and religion, or conscience. Our Constitution instructs for pure elections, and thus allows for the people to alter their government through them. This is what the Flag represents.

This is what the people have done on Nov 5, overcoming many impurities by their numbers. She has the right to reform and alter government. I happen to believe, for the record, since she assumed otherwise, that everyone’s personal choices are between themselves and God, however, I do not think of God as a wizened wizard-like figure in the clouds, rather as Living Source Wisdom in intelligent ethers. It is not inherently male, in my understanding. Who created the Nature here in Vermont? Pfizer? 

We have just been through Covid where the Government has subjugated the population to a series of injections, imprisonment and destruction of personal businesses, while absolving themselves of the very mandates they demand we obey, enriching their financial superiors beyond measure. I am not for this. I am thrilled that others in the country have removed the administration that did this. I believe that had our community had more people of African American descent, these people would have warned Vermonters of the bad outcomes of other experiments, namely the Tuskegee experiments.

The VAERS reports, known to under-report by a factor of 10, according to a Harvard study, has listed over 1.2 million deaths associated with the injections. I am not happy this has happened to my naive community.  She paints a very interesting picture, how do you bulldoze a climate? I will tell you, however, that if you wanted to care for ‘climate change’ e.g. Nature,  the very most important activity the government would engage itself in, is the establishment of a large and broad network of micro, small and medium regenerative, organic farms. T

he fact that government does its antithesis,  allows poisons on our soils that destroy the natural world and our health, informs me. With the presence of Robert F Kennedy Jr in the next administration, we will have the foremost champion of Nature with litigative success almost unparalleled to halt corporate perversion of Nature for profit. And the fact that the people overwhelmingly voted for him through Trump ought to be very relieving to every person concerned about the destruction of Nature by government and corporate empire. Now here is a very important point concerning woman’s rights. How may one stand up for women while concurrently encouraging someone with male physiology to compete unfairly in their sports? How is it ‘healthy’ to abort a child? Does it not cause all kinds of mental anguish? This is what I believe she means by woman’s health. I would say woman’s health also means capacity to earn enough to CHOOSE whether or not to carry, and to be able to care for a child economically while devoting more time and attention to the next generation.

My view, destruction of a fetus is between the woman and her Conscious or her God.  If a person gets an abortion, that emotional hardship is ‘punishment’ enough. Government has long attempted to control others and subjugate women specifically to males, and the many to the few. I stand against that.  I believe we do not have economic conditions that favor women enough, so that they CAN have children and devote themselves thus. Also, we incorrectly blame women having children for ‘climate change”. The blame for that is 100% on a monetary system that compels slavery and indenture by all including the governmental class to a banking elite so greedy it will instigate war and environmental destruction for control of humanity. It will open borders to undermine the jobs held now by minorities here, with noncitizen people willing to work for pennies. 

I also ask this, why is the “right” the only “side” concerned with child sex slavery and trafficking? A horrifying consequence of an open border. War of course, is the worst insult to ‘climate change’, and thankfully we now have an administration that will seek alternatives to war and is not beholden to the military industrial complex as the last is. For the amount of money we poured into war over the last four years we could have established millions of small regenerative farms, repairing health and reducing pollution massively.  AS far as trans and gay rights. Thankfully, we live in a country where one can be what one wishes, that is not threatened in any fashion.

However, our country IS threatened by the encroachment of Shariah law, and if you are concerned about women’s equality, Wowzer, this would be your issue. Protecting our country from that and Chinese communism (where the Apple company that made my computer has a factory with nets around its building to catch people jumping out of windows to kill themselves, and to keep them alive and industrious for Apple) is an under-discussed priority. The CCP has infiltrated our country on a scale that is hazardous to our freedoms. The last admin encouraged, rather than discouraged that infiltration. My personal view regarding obsession with all and any forms of sexuality, there are more important things to focus on, like repairing Nature, maintaining our Freedoms and enhancing the people’s economic freedom from indenture to the banking elite sector.

Once we accomplish that together, sexual obsessiveness through media indoctrination will be replaced by actual economic, expressive and creative freedom.  So, I am telling Alex and everyone else who thinks I’m nuts, thank God (Living Source Wisdom) I am, because if I weren’t, you would not have someone smart enough to develop a path to economic empowerment for you and your children of all colors, and brave enough to stand up for your rights of all colors and sexes, and build a future for your children with their right to be free intact, augmented by empowerment of their creative capacity to meet the crises we leave them. Next please ask me how serious I am about indigenous wisdom. The Flag, insofar as it represents subjugation of their people, also represents our capacity to alter our governance to honor the true harmony indigenous American people knew with Nature so subsequent Americans may learn to be so wise.  The US flag represents your right to personal values and ethics neighbor, when you get down to it. Emily Peyton, Putney