How to turn a state liberal (Colorado)

Salon ^ | March 20, 2013 | David Sirota

[C19fan]

As Colorado goes, so goes the nation. With the culture and demographics of the Intermountain West so rapidly changing, this motto about my home state has become conventional wisdom in national electoral politics, and for good reason. After all, the square state is the capital of the so-called Rocky Mountain Empire, a region that is fast becoming the political equivalent of a test market for the whole country. And if it is true that the way Colorado goes is the way the nation as a whole goes, then America better get ready for some extremely large changes.

Part of Colorado’s story of change comes from the statehouse where Democrats control both the governor’s office and both chambers of the Legislature. But as much of the story comes from outside the Capitol, where organic grass-roots uprisings are obliterating old political assumptions.

[dfwgator]

From “South Park”:

Robert Redford: Like termites, we will move this film festival from town to town until we have used it up. And then move on, until every quiet mountain town is like Los Angeles.

Phyllis: Why? Why would we do such a thing?

Robert Redford: Because we have to live in L.A. And if we can’t live in quiet, simple, peaceful mountain towns, then nobody will! [Laughs maniacally] Waitwaitwait. Zoom in to a close-up of my face when I do that. Ready? Then NOBODY will! [the camera moves in as he laughs maniacally again] That’s it.

[ducttape45]

It's already happening in Texas.

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I've been reading many more articles like this coming out of Texas. It's just a matter of time.

[itsahoot]

Deep inside I know this is going to happen to Texas. GAME OVER.

Anyone that has really looked at the red/blue map of Texas from last election has to come to the same conclusion.

[itsahoot]

Not that soon, but probably by 2020.

But, but your Governor said that it was delusional to think that Texas would turn Blue.</sarcasm>

[driftless2]

What happened? Did a mess of hippies enter the state or what?

[DaveA37]

Colorado began to turn “libturd” back in the late 70’s and early 80’s. We lived there and would watch the moving vans coming in from Kalifornia on a daily basis. We could see it beginning then and chose to move back to Wisconsin (not Madistan) to escape their insanity. Unfortunately after we left, the exodus continued to create what Colorado is now. May she rest in peace.

[JCBreckenridge]

I’m neither. Blaming the growth in Austin and San Antonio for the ills of Texas is wrong. There are plenty of conservatives that have relocated here because here are where the jobs are.

[JCBreckenridge]

Good thing we have the surrender conservatives to tell us so. Give up! Give up!

I’m going to stand and fight. You with me?

[who knows what evil?]

There are only a few states out there that will stay ‘red’ for some time to come...

[Hildred Castaigne]

Then a few liberals makes everyone THINK there are few conservatives.. I have come to the conclusion that there ARE fewer conservatives than liberals in this country. I reside in an urban area (Atlanta) and have done so my entire life. Most conservative support that I see is based out in the outer suburbs and the rural areas. Densely populated suburbs and the city itself? As liberal as Mao. Thing is, only about 20% of the nation lives in rural areas any more. You get more and more small towns out there becoming ghost towns. And the longer MOST people are in the city or inner suburbs, the more liberal they tend to get. As the countryside depopulates, the conservative margins become thinner and thinner and more ground is lost to liberals.

[Axenolith]

That’s why we need to total economic collapse and reset, so all the parasitic losers either starve out, or get “work” religion quickly...

[Big Horn]

So far Colorado has received many of the people leaving Calif. which has helped the rest of us.

[AlaskaErik]

The shift to blue states will only last as long as the money lasts. There will come a time when we have to pay the piper. In four more years we will be about 22 to 24 trillion dollars in debt. We’ve already run out of our own money and at some point we will run out of other country’s money. The fed can only print so much money before we face hyperinflation. Better stock up on guns, ammo, food and other necessities while you can.

[squarebarb]

The left-wing Hispanic organizations have full-time activists who are organizing hard among legal and illegal Hispanics as I type this.

What are the Repubs doing?

Nada.

Yes, Texas will turn blue.

[squarebarb]

Yes, but standing and fighting means you have to have some kind of an organization. The Republicans are such lazy b@st@rds they make me want to scream. They despise their own base, even here in Texazs.

[Grams A]

Info available through stats maintained by Raging Elephants suggests that if the same number of Democrats had voted for the Democrat candidate in our last Governor’s election as voted for BO, we would have had a Democrat Governor right now.

Thank God they chose not to vote.

[itsahoot]

I’m going to stand and fight. You with me?

Against all enemies, foreign and domestic, just like the oath I took 60 years ago said.

[JCBreckenridge]

so we form our own organization. Who says we need Republicans?

[Blue Ink]

None of you has any idea what you’re talking about.

If California is so liberal and decayed, how did we give the nation RICHARD NIXON and RONALD REAGAN in a span of twenty years? And only twenty-eight years ago for Mr. Reagan’s second term? (Yes, California voted for Reagan.)

Here’s what happened: our native-born population was simply overrun with liberal East Coast transplants (hi, Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer!), illegal immigrants from Mexico, and welfare recipients from your state grabbing our generous benefits during the boom times.

These same East Coast transplants and former illegal aliens are now bailing out on the state they ruined in droves. The welfare recipients are staying.

Don’t. Blame. Californians. Blame America’s East Coast (and Mexico’s) life losers, the ones who ruined my state. Now they’ve come for yours.

But I guess it’s easier to be mad at California than at yourselves for standing around doing nothing while the California border with Mexico was erased, isn’t it?