I understand why good people like you are fleeing from Massachusetts, but why do so many “liberals” flee? One of the reasons Vermont has turned into a little commie stronghold is that so many Massachusetts lefties moved up there. Vermont was once sort of a moderate Republican state but it’s now one of the nation’s premier moonbat hideaways.
New Hampshire was one of the most conservative states in America, but thanks to new arrivals from Massachusetts it’s now trending in the same direction as Vermont. In a few years they’ll have to change their motto to “Live An Egalitarian Communal Existence Or Die”.
My guess is that these people are stupid and hypocritical. They love all the Massachusetts “liberal” policies, but don’t like paying the high taxes to sustain them, so they move to a low tax state and then idiotically vote for candidates who will implement the same policies, forgetting that high taxes will be the inevitable result.
Tell a Communist that every commie nation is a failure and they’ll assert that it’s because Communism wasn’t “properly” implemented in those places. Yes, the Soviet Union, and East Germany, and Mao’s China, and North Korea, and other such nations all became economic basket cases, but it’s only because the wrong people were running them. If the correct people had been running them, they surely would have become economic world powers and would have eclipsed the West in wealth and living standards. Of course, we’re always assured that the next Communist regime will be run by the right people and will work. In fact, none of them ever work unless they make some reforms and allow more capitalism, as China has now done.
I think a lot of these loons who are ruining VT and NH think the same way. They figure they can implement fashionable “liberalism” without the baggage that destroyed Massachusetts. They’re the right people to implement it, and they’ll bring about a utopia if given complete control. Instead, they’ll only ruin formerly good places to live.
That's my guess too.
In high school, I had a friend whose dad was fairly wealthy, and also a flaming liberal. He used to brag about the fact that he registered his car in NH to avoid MA excise tax. He would also brag that he would buy a big new TV before the Super Bowl, and then return it the following week. Final story. When we were hanging out at my friend's house eating a pizza, his father was quietly walking around the table. We were a little uneasy. Then he said, "Joe, make sure you get your share."
And then there's my uncle who was an English labor union boss (commie) who left his wife, got a younger girlfriend, and went to sail around the world in his yacht. He also sent his kids to a Polish "Young Pioneers" camp back in the '70s. A real champion of the common man.
You can't make this stuff up. Yeah, you have to love those liberals.