by Steve MacDonald

The UK Daily Mail (Online) has a lengthy look at the public safety issues in Vermont. Rising overdose deaths and a murder spike have the experts reeling as they look for ways to turn things around. It’s a mystery to them – but not to us.

Stop voting for Democrats and supporting their failed policies at every level of government.

The state police are short-staffed because no one wants to work for a state whose ruling party is more interested in burnishing its progressive image with the next TikTok video alleging misuse of force. The cops know you don’t have their back and will throw them under your bus at the first opportunity.

This applies to local police forces as well, which are chronically understaffed, in some cases because Democrats defunded them right before the crime wave started.

You even bragged about it, so consider yourself lucky that you are not 20 or 25% understaffed, though that’s likely to happen as people retire that you can’t replace because you went out of your way to sh!t on cops for the better part of a year.

The drug overdose problem is the Democrat’s fault as well. Open borders and sanctuary policies allow easy entry for both the product and the gangs who will seek to profit from it. Add decreased policing, and you’ve created an environment for lawlessness, which you use to disarm law-abiding citizens, resulting in more victims.

To this, we add the systemic policy failures on a number of other fronts (energy, food, monetary) that have driven up inflation and prices, making it harder for locals to make ends meet, on whose backs you’ve piled teeming masses of undocumented illegal entrants.

Not surprisingly, no one seems to realize that Democrats are the problem.

When asked about a solution, [criminology professor Penny Shtull] said she and other experts are working with police – stating that they are looking at federal data secured over past few years for the entire country, hoping it will provide some guidance.

‘Nationwide, we’re looking at what type of programs or practices – whether that’s law enforcement or on a governmental level in terms of policies and practices – may have reduced the overall, nationwide crime rate and whether those can be applied to places like Vermont.’

You don’t have to look far. New Hampshire, just a step to your right, is significantly safer per capita (the safest state in the nation, actually). We didn’t defund any police, we don’t disarm law-abiding citizens, we are not a sanctuary state, and we have no sanctuary cities.

We have record low poverty, high quality of life, one of the lowest overall tax burdens, are the freest state in North America (Fraiser Institute), and support the right to self-defense (constitutional carry). We’ve also managed to keep Democrats from dominating state offices (just barely) for long enough to encourage growth and independence instead of stagnation and dependency.

I’ve said it many times before. Vermont is that train wreck of a family member whom you look to for what not to do. You see your Uncle Vermont over there. Don’t be like that.

Vermont’s crime problem is tragic, as are the overdose deaths (we’ve got a lot of those here as well), but they are problems that begin with policy. Deliberate choices. Decisions and paths of pursuit whose failure is foretold in places like Chicago, DC, Baltimore, Memphis, Loc Angeles, and Detroit. Geography cannot protect you from Democrat rule, and Vermont is no different.

Get rid of the Democrats if you can. If not, you might have to move.

If you are planning to come to New Hampshire, please don’t bring the Democrats with you, or not long from now, you’ll have to move again.

They destroy everything they touch.

Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the Managing Editor and co-owner of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.