I have written on this subject on numerous occasions and have yet to find a valid answer to the question many of us ponder. Why do people migrate from a Blue state like New York, California, or Massachusetts to Red or Purple states like New Hampshire, Tennessee, or Florida? The obvious answer would be financial or safety. Blue states are getting too expensive for even tax-loving Liberals, and the destination states I mentioned have at least one thing in common: no income tax or sales tax. The Red states tend to have better school systems. They also have lower crime rates than the states where they are exiting. Those are actual crime rates, not the manipulated statistics of Blue states, where they do not arrest criminals and, therefore, have a deflated rate.

So, if people are leaving these Blue states for a better quality of life in Red states, why do they bring their Progressive ideals with them that created those adverse climates they escaped? Why do they vote, or worse, get elected to office, to effectively change the Red state to be more like that which they left? I don’t have a means to get inside their heads for the answer, but we have seen how they accomplish their goals.

I have experienced firsthand two metamorphoses in New Hampshire and Maine, directly linked to Massachusetts. I came to New Hampshire in 1983 but was a rare Massachusetts Conservative and did not impact the Red characteristics then. `Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for the thousands of Liberals who proceeded me. They came to take advantage of the Conservative principles on the one hand and to destroy them on the other.

Since 2019, there have been 40,000 Democrat voters relocating to Maine, especially to York or Cumberland counties. These people have been infiltrating the Maine government and turning it into the most liberal state in the union east of Oregon. Why these people think that because Oregon or Washington state adopt a policy, it is suitable for Maine, defies logic. Even Oregon is rethinking its Progressive drug laws and reverting them to more Conservative policies. The area around Portland, Oregon, has become so Progressive that many counties in the eastern part of the state have petitioned to secede from Oregon and join neighboring Utah.

In Maine, these liberals have put a stranglehold on the areas of Portland, Augusta, Auburn/Lewiston and have gained a majority position in the Maine government. This power has allowed them to push through bills that most Mainers cannot identify. Gun restrictions in their war on the second amendment, the most liberal abortion law in the country allowing abortion to the moment of birth, creating Maine as a sanctuary state for minors seeking abortion or transgender care from other states, and joining the Popular Vote Compact to eradicate the Electoral College in violation of the Constitution are a few of the Progressive laws now on Maine’s book.

To label Liberal Democrats as Progressive is a contradiction of the word. There is nothing progressive in creating laws that show you are against the principles of America and, taken as a whole, show a hatred of this greatest political experiment in the history of the world. That is not Progressive but Regressive and Destructive. Americans are free to choose the state they wish to live in but not recreate it. If that is your purpose, please return to where you came from on the road you came in on.

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I just cannot understand how anyone can believe that the 2024 election, like the elections preceding it, is NOT going to be rigged. For example, in a recent post on this blog: “The trial in New York City is backfiring on the Democrats.” In what universe?

It is working perfectly, actually … Trump is prevented from campaigning for six to eight weeks. The corporate media “covers” the “trial” as if it were a real crime and not a made-up, make-believe crime, and the vast majority of Americans buy into the deception.

The truth of the matter, bitter-clingers, is that America has NOT been a democracy for at least half a century. Our federal elections are merely camouflage for the true government … the permanent administrative/bureaucracy. The “intelligence community” is our real government … they want a proxy war in Ukraine; they get a proxy war in Ukraine. And their lapdogs in the corporate media… INCLUDING AND ESPECIALLY FOX NEWS … portray  complaint, gutless, self-serving GOP “representatives” as “courageous” and having “done the right thing” for doing the bidding of the “intelligence community.”

When do you think was the last period of time that America had truly representative government, rather than a permanent bureaucracy/spy state that manipulated events to maintain control of the system?

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 22, 2024

NEW: Tucker Carlson explains how the FBI and CIA conducted a coup to take out President Richard Nixon with help from journalist Bob Woodward.

“Richard Nixon was taken out by the FBI and CIA, and with the help of Bob Woodward.”

“[Woodward] was that guy. And who is his main… pic.twitter.com/K8Yt9zy9Qk

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 20, 2024

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Insane.

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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 20, 2024

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Another blow to parental rights is taking place in The New Hampshire House and Senate. SB341 is a simple and logical proposed Bill. SB341 would require all school employees to respond honestly and completely to written requests by parents regarding information relating to their children.

Many people will wonder why that isn’t standard practice to begin with. Shouldn’t teachers answer the questions from parents honestly?

Several years ago, The New Hampshire School Boards Association put forward a model policy for school districts to adopt.JBAB addressed school policies for transgender students. Within the policy, there is a provision that directs teachers to lie to parents if parents ask about their child’s gender status while they are at school. The NHSBA withdrew its support for this policy a few years ago, but several schools still have it in place. You can go to your district’s website and look for school policies to see if your district still requires school personnel to lie to parents under III. Guidance A. Privacy:

III. GUIDANCE A. Privacy
The Board recognizes a student’s right to keep private one’s transgender status or gender nonconforming presentation at school. Information about a student’s transgender status, legal name, or gender assigned at birth also may constitute confidential information. School personnel should not disclose information that may reveal a student’s transgender status or gender nonconforming presentation to others, including parents and other school personnel, unless legally required to do so or unless the student has authorized such disclosure. Transgender and gender nonconforming students have the right to discuss and express their gender identity and expression openly and to decide when, with whom, and how much to share private information.
When contacting the parent or guardian of a transgender or gender nonconforming student, school personnel should use the student’s legal name and the pronoun corresponding to the student’s gender assigned at birth unless the student, parent, or guardian has specified otherwise.

Since then, one parent in Manchester has sued the district, and other parents are now beginning to wonder what else school officials are willing to hide from them.

Federal law requires districts to disclose all records on students to their parents (FERPA)

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99) is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. The law applies to all schools that receive funds under an applicable program of the U.S. Department of Education.

FERPA gives parents certain rights with respect to their children’s education records. These rights transfer to the student when he or she reaches the age of 18 or attends a school beyond the high school level. Students to whom the rights have transferred are “eligible students.”

*Parents or eligible students have the right to inspect and review the student’s education records maintained by the school. Schools are not required to provide copies of records unless, for reasons such as great distance, it is impossible for parents or eligible students to review the records.

So, who decided that this information should not be included in a child’s record and that parents should be denied any information about their children?

If you are concerned about a child’s safety, the proposed legislation does include a clause that allows a teacher to withhold information from a parent if they suspect the child will be harmed. Like teachers, parents are innocent until proven guilty.  So, there is no reason to withhold information from parents unless they are a threat to that child.

None of that mattered to the Democrats on the House Education Committee.  This week, they voted against SB 341, while the Republicans voted to support it. With a 10-10 vote, SB341 now goes before the entire NH House for a vote without recommendation.

SB341 did pass the NH Senate down party lines. All Democrats opposed it. All Republicans supported it.

Why is it that Democrats think it’s ok for teachers to lie to good parents?

Now would be a good time to contact your State Representative and ask them to vote Ought to Pass on SB341. Tell them that school personnel lying to good parents is unacceptable.

You can find your State Representative here: https://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/

The constant attack on parental rights needs to stop. Trying to break a sacred bond between parent and child is wrong.

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