Thanks to THE ATLANTIC and POLITICO for reporting on Plan V – our blueprints for a 2nd Vermont Republic – in the wake of the Brexit.

Indeed, a “Vexit” is an idea we’ve been championing since 2004, and unlike some politicians in the U.K., we have a plan.

We call it “Plan V” for a 2VR.

What’s missing for Vermont independence is political will, a genuine popular movement supporting decentralism – though signs of increasing interest are everywhere here in the Green Mountains – from renewable energy discussions and project implementation to food relocalization efforts to work on alternative financial mechanisms to provide for a more resilient Vermont moving forward.

And given everything on the 21st century U.S. imperial table, more and more Vermonters are seeking genuine alternatives to the corrupt and bloated military/industrial/terror complex.

Here are two articles from the Sunday New York Times that provide some useful context on the Brexit and the Vexit.

Conservative columnist Ross Douthat politely points out that the global 1% (so-called “cosmopolitans”) are as tribal as the rest of us, a self-serving global aristocracy enriched, at the expense of the rest of us, by the  homogeneous economic conformity of “disastrous” global trade policies (to quote Vermont senator and 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders) and the elitist (yet “tribal”) culture they engender.

Meanwhile, senior economics correspondent Neil Irwin explores the myth of “efficiency” that undergirds so much of what politely passes for “globalization” talk amongst the economic elite and chatterati. Turns out, ordinary (which is to say “real”) people actually care about things in life – stability, purpose, social standing – above and beyond the latest stock gains or GNP numbers.

Shocker.

Bring on the Vexit – free Vermont, and long live the UNtied States!