José Eduardo Cambrils, writing in the Concord Monitor, observes that at the age 6 State Rep. Safiya Wazir was a refugee from totalitarian Afghanistan. He adds that “I was also a 5-year-old refugee from a totalitarian nightmare – Fidel Castro’s Communist Cuba.” Then wonders how they turned out so different?
It’s a very well written piece, and while I don’t typically send traffic to the Monitor, you should read it if you can. He recounts the circumstances of the 2018 election and how she was received versus her general election opponent. Her identity politics trumped his years of experience in the House, and he was, as José notes, an old white guy.
And José invests some time to explore that. But what caught my eye was the different perceptions about how we arrive at a state of tyranny. The very think both he and Safiya were fortunate enough to escape at a young age.
Aside from the 18 votes she’s missed, Wazir has a 100 percent record of voting for every socialist or anti-liberty bill that’s come up in the current Legislature – marching in lockstep with the far-left Democrats currently ascendant in Concord. She’s voted to increase business taxes (HB 623), interest and dividend taxes (HB 686), for an FMLA income tax (HB 712) and against Second Amendment rights (HB 109).
Every time you take (money, decisions, opportunities, rights) from people and give it to the state, you transfer their power to the state. The State assumes it (almost) never gives it back. The system exists to prevent loss of control once obtained. And Democrats invest copious amounts of political capital to protect that.
Mission creep sets in, bureaucrats expand their scope, and like-minded legislators hand them more. Taxes rise to feed this growth, and every transfer of wealth is another step toward additional state control. There inevitably is a point of critical mass. A Tipping point. Where only through violent (sometimes perpetual) revolution will the people have any hope to regain the individual authority to control their own lives or those of their family.
The thing that José and Safiya were privileged enough to escape. Only to have Safiya invest the power given her by her New Hampshire constituents to advance that creeping tyranny here.
