Wow, you're an activism dynamo!
In the immortal words of Wolf Blitzer, "amazing...amazing!"
Tell me, is NH really as glorious as it sounds? I'm dying to make the move, but my dad has all of these preconceived notions about what it must be like up there. He's utterly convinced that NH must be at least 10 below 0 for 8 out of 12 months, and full of cranky, big-city northerners. I keep trying to explain to him that New Hampshire is vastly different from northeastern urban centers like New York or Washington, D.C., and that it has an extremely versatile topography and geography ranging from bustling cities and small towns to rural homesteads and rocky beaches, but he just won't believe me. He thinks I've drunk some kind of "Free Stater Kool-Aid" and that it simply isn't possible that the activism going on is as potent and successful as I've been led to believe (by hypnotically persuasive, Sun Myung Moon-like FSP cult-leaders
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He's a terrific guy and incredibly supportive, but he's got such a defeatist and nihilistic attitude sometimes. He was incredibly invested in the Ron Paul campaign and felt terribly let down by his failure. Another contributing factor to this defeatist mentality, in my opinion, is that he seems to believe that the only path to liberty is through the political means, when some of the greatest Free State victories have been with civil disobedience and market-based activism.
Sorry, I don't mean to ramble. It's just that I've never had the chance to ask an actual Free Stater about the experience. Are you from the New England area originally, or were you one of the "globe-trekkers"? Was the move shocking on any level, cultural, familial, or climatological?
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