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By Rep. Andy Biggs | Washington Examiner
America, and my home state, Arizona, are at a crossroads. We have two roads we can take. One is a return to the path of freedom; the other is totalitarianism. This is not necessarily a partisan issue or even a left/right problem. It is a potential permanent alteration of who we are as a people.
Nothing typifies this more fully than the mandates to wear masks that some governors and mayors are imposing on their citizens. That so many in our country are immediately acquiescent in the broad implementation of mandated masks reveals that we may have lost our way, perhaps irretrievably.
An authoritarian leader typically exercises broad and seemingly endless power. The only two limitations that prevent abuse are the personal conscience of that leader or a rebellion by the people.
