If there's a silver lining: the ingress of blue voters who turned Denver (and thus Colorado) purple are disjointed weirdos whose political interest goes about as far as the ballot box. These people just want to smoke weed, do weird outdoorsy shit, and plan their next horrible tattoo.
The conservatives in CO are much more organized, and were able to push back against a lot of the mask and vaccine bullshit. I was in and out of the state kind of frequently over the past couple years and it was always a mix of liberal stupidity and red state common sense.
Don't sell them short. The Blue Voters are also infesting Apsen and Vail (and the general surrounding areas like Snowmass and Edwards). And those aren't just the dumb 20 something libshits. Those are the out of touch mega rich ones.
The fortunate part about that however is those people need even more working class to keep those cities running, and those people can't even hope to afford living anywhere close. So every nearby city/county grows even more red entrenched and populace to compensate.
Until the richies start driving them out of the minimal available real estate in the mountains too.
Right - I was very careful not to mention the big money in Aspen and Vail. That's where the CO DNC has power -- not in Denver where their voters nominally are.
I love Denver, too, so don't get me wrong. But the people there aren't that politically engaged.
If there's a silver lining: the ingress of blue voters who turned Denver (and thus Colorado) purple are disjointed weirdos whose political interest goes about as far as the ballot box. These people just want to smoke weed, do weird outdoorsy shit, and plan their next horrible tattoo.
The conservatives in CO are much more organized, and were able to push back against a lot of the mask and vaccine bullshit. I was in and out of the state kind of frequently over the past couple years and it was always a mix of liberal stupidity and red state common sense.
Don't sell them short. The Blue Voters are also infesting Apsen and Vail (and the general surrounding areas like Snowmass and Edwards). And those aren't just the dumb 20 something libshits. Those are the out of touch mega rich ones.
The fortunate part about that however is those people need even more working class to keep those cities running, and those people can't even hope to afford living anywhere close. So every nearby city/county grows even more red entrenched and populace to compensate.
Until the richies start driving them out of the minimal available real estate in the mountains too.
Right - I was very careful not to mention the big money in Aspen and Vail. That's where the CO DNC has power -- not in Denver where their voters nominally are.
I love Denver, too, so don't get me wrong. But the people there aren't that politically engaged.