‘Live Free or Die’: New Hampshire Man Runs for Senate in Pursuit of Liberty

Bruce Fenton sees the present period as “occasions of radical change,” “the sort of change that you just solely see each century or so.” And he takes issues into his personal fingers by operating for Senate in New Hampshire.

The world with guidelines and programs constructed over the previous 30 years was gone in 2019, stated Fenton. What’s trending in society, in response to him, is “centralized management, communist energy, boots on heads, social credit score scores, and our children carrying masks or different political indicators the remainder of their lives.” 

“I feel we will both go down a path of tyranny or a path of freedom,” Fenton instructed The Epoch Occasions. “If we don’t get this proper, we lose our freedom. And if we lose freedom, we might lose all the things, [including] our complete lifestyle.” 

He considers masks and vaccine mandates as medical tyranny. As well as, the media and Massive Tech are part of tyranny that censors political beliefs, he added.

Fenton introduced his candidacy on the finish of March, becoming a member of three others. The nomination race set for Sept. 13 presently has 11 Republican candidates in whole. The crowded race doesn’t appear to discourage Fenton, who stated he had the concept to run for Senate in February as a result of he wasn’t completely satisfied along with his decisions.

New Hampshire wants a liberty selection, particularly in occasions of radical change, he stated. “That is positively the time we’d like liberty greater than ever.” 

A monetary adviser recognized for cryptocurrency entrepreneurship, Fenton stated he “grew up on the ground of a brokerage agency.” His mom was a waitress who later moved to gross sales, promoting gymnasium memberships, insurance coverage, microwave ovens, and, finally, monetary investments. On the age of 19, Fenton bought his first funding license. Now he has his personal securities brokerage agency. 

A self-identified Libertarian Republican, he stated that he acknowledged the elemental position of financial freedom in human freedom. And interactions with voters affirmed his standpoint. On Aug. 29, whereas on the marketing campaign path, a voter stated to Fenton: “I’m working class. When folks in D.C. resolve to spend cash, that’s my pocket it comes from. I would like my cash.”

“It’s a typical factor that individuals say. However the best way he stated it and the emotion that he had, it will get me as a result of it’s his cash,” stated Fenton. “It was simply very actual as a result of he’s only a actual man proper there. I want folks in Washington would meet folks like that and consider him once they signal all these horrible, harmful payments.”

He added that for legislators in Washington to spend large by taking cash from a daily working man was “completely inhumane and immoral.”

Connecting Cryptocurrency World and Authorities

Fenton sees many similarities between his expertise within the crypto world and what the federal government can do higher: accuracy and threat administration.

Based on him, the cryptocurrency house—and authorities—calls for excessive levels of accuracy. “Should you lie within the cryptocurrency house, you get discovered in a short time. So it requires you to have the ability to assume in your toes, perceive altering knowledge, and be capable of talk successfully.”

He stated threat administration was one other factor folks didn’t do sufficient of in authorities. Within the cryptocurrency enterprise, understanding the system and desirous about threat is essential: “How might this [financial code] break? How might this be attacked? How might anyone recreation on this system? How might anyone unfairly affect it?”

Good engineers requested these questions a number of occasions, and typically for years, he stated. “One thing like the concept that ‘let’s have a scientist resolve to close down the entire nation’ will not be workable [in the cryptocurrency world],” he added, referring to the pandemic lockdowns. “That will by no means move the sort of threat evaluation in engineering.” 

Successful Over Independents and Libertarians

Based on an Aug. 30 College of New Hampshire survey, retired Military Basic Don Bolduc is the frontrunner with 43 % assist amongst probably Republican main voters. New Hampshire state Senate president Chuck Morse ranked second at 22 %. Fenton ranked fourth, barely behind economist and creator Vikram Mansharamani, at 5 %. The survey additionally discovered 20 % undecided. The survey’s margin of error is 2 %, in response to the College of New Hampshire’s survey heart.

An analogous ballot from the St. Anselm Faculty Survey Heart on Aug. 15 confirmed related rankings of Republican candidates and 39 % undecided.

The state permits a beforehand unaffiliated voter to take part within the partisan main of their selection. Based on the Unbiased Voter Challenge, a nonpartisan election reform advocacy group, the unaffiliated in New Hampshire quantities to over 400,000. 

When Fenton introduced his candidacy, New Hampshire Democrat Social gathering Chair Ray Buckley referred to as him a “Free State extremist” and stated his candidacy mirrored voters’ dissatisfaction with the three candidates already operating within the Republican main. Not one of the Republican candidates are endorsed by former President Donald Trump or New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu. 

Fenton stated he was nonetheless optimistic, referring to the massive proportion of undecided amongst probably Republican main voters and the sizeable Libertarian inhabitants within the state. Within the 2020 presidential election, the Libertarian presidential candidate bought 13,000 votes from New Hampshire.

A member of the Free State Challenge, Fenton moved to New Hampshire from Massachusetts 5 years in the past. The Challenge is a political pro-freedom motion aiming at shifting greater than 20,000 folks to New Hampshire for liberty. The Free State Challenge non-profit group, based in 2001, introduced reaching the objective as of Feb. 3, 2016, when 20,000 members had signed statements of intent to maneuver to New Hampshire inside the subsequent 5 years.

The Senate race this 12 months will probably be a detailed name. Within the 2016 Senate election, the incumbent first-term Sen. Maggie Hassan gained by 1,017 votes. Fenton stated Republican voters wanted a candidate who might entice the Independents and Libertarians within the state, not somebody who might solely enchantment to the Republican base.

He stated his place in ending the drug battle, or drug legalization, could be very widespread amongst younger voters. And his assist of over-the-counter abortion medication units him aside from different pro-life Republican candidates.

Andrew Smith, director of the College of New Hampshire Survey Heart and a professor of political science with the college, instructed The Epoch Occasions in an e mail that Libertarians make up lower than 5 % of all registered voters in New Hampshire. “Not many younger folks vote in primaries, and their turnout can be considerably decrease than older folks typically elections. A candidate [who] says she or he will win due to the youth vote will nearly definitely lose,” he added.

Successful or not, Fenton has set out his marketing campaign to pursue “most freedom for each particular person”: “I need homosexual married {couples} to have the ability to use Dogecoin to purchase absolutely automated weapons to guard their marijuana vegetation. That’s what I imply once I say freedom.”

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Terri Wu is a Washington-based freelance reporter for The Epoch Occasions masking training and China-related points. Ship tricks to terri.wu@epochtimes.com.