Posted on 07/02/2018 9:40:43 AM PDT by re_tail20
In the fast-changing political battleground that is suburban Denver, Somali families dine on goat soup and fish fritters in a onetime Chinese restaurant where golden dragons still guard the doorways.
Where the English Teacup cafe once stood, a new Japanese dessert bar now stays open late, selling green tea soft-serve and fish-shaped pastries to lines of Korean and Latino teenagers.
And up and down Havana Street, auto lots once run by the likes of Dealin’ Doug are now Ethio-Motors, Maaliki Motors and Jordan Motors — names that reflect the new owners and new customers who are part of a hyperspeed transformation of this old stretch of suburbia. It has become a mile-high United Nations, where 160 languages can be heard in public-school hallways and nearly one in five people is foreign-born.
If demographics really were destiny, this place would be a gold mine for the Democratic Party’s efforts to reap political gains from an increasingly diverse and nonwhite America.
Instead, Colorado’s Sixth Congressional District has become a scene of frustration and failure for Democrats. In election after cash-soaked election, Democrats have been unable to unseat Mike Coffman, a five-term Republican congressman, even after his Republican-layup district was redrawn to slice out some conservative white voters and include thousands more Hispanic residents.
Mr. Coffman has kept winning in part because he has sought to show he embraced the needs of his newer constituents. He has positioned himself as a renegade Republican on immigration issues, scalding the president’s policies and breaking with his party’s leadership on the need for an immigration overhaul.
He has forged bonds with his district’s immigrant communities, learning to speak Spanish and spending weekends floating between meetings at Ethiopian and Korean churches, Buddhist temples and Islamic centers. He supported a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who were...
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Perhaps this could be a case study in how Republicans can embrace “diversity” crowds into the big tent. It will possibly become easier in the future, as Democrat appeals sound more and more like shrill abstractions. Bringing “diversity” crowds into the “bourgeoisie” is a powerful incentive.
Note to self: Send Mike $30.
I visited Denver in summer 2016, then again fall 2017. quite a difference. they will be sorry they legalized pot. in another year or 3, Denver will be a shithole
Denver already is. The vagrancy, street beggars, potheads, homeless, teenage runaways, criminals, Hispanic gngs, etc.
Frightening. And happening in way too many parts of America... :-(
As if alcohol can’t feed the same sort of profligacy.
“It has become a mile-high United Nations, where 160 languages can be heard in public-school hallways and nearly one in five people is foreign-born”
So they admit that it isn’t American anymore.
When did we vote to become the UN? Does the Times advocate this for say, South Africa? In that country they scream bitterly that it should only be ruled by a racial majority.
Funny how they don’t agree with that here.
I commend Rep. Coffman for doing what he thinks and feels he needs to do, within reason, to succeed, even though I would disagree with some of his new positions. He’s the one holding the seat.
Colorado uses a “Politician Independent Commission” to do its redistricting, which is in between the State Legislature doing the redistricting and a Non-Politician Independent Commission doing the redistricting. The Democrats on the last Politician Commission must have been pretty strong as they were able to succeed in efforts to try to marginalize Coffman by slicing away blocs of white voters.
There are portions of Dallas and Fort Worth where nearly all the billboards and signs are in Spanish, so I imagine Los Angeles is even worse.
Wouldn’t the devil and/or God be in the details? New York had a Chinatown many, many decades ago, and yet we generally heard about it as a good thing. Can an English speaking person go in there and converse? If so, why worry.
Chinese aren’t Muslims; in fact, Chinese hate Muslims.
A walk in Chinatown is probably as safe now as it ever was.
Can’t say that about Somalitown.
Well an Islam problem isn’t quite the same as an “United Nations problem.” I hope it’s discreetly watched.
“It has become a mile-high United Nations, where 160 languages can be heard in public-school hallways and nearly one in five people is foreign-born.”
And the Slimes is just orgasmic over all that “cultural enrichment”.
Face time is the politician’s answer. If he spends his time at booze parties for donors, the people will not see him.
Structure your life around the local people groups.
“Perhaps this could be a case study in how Republicans can embrace “diversity” crowds into the big tent. It will possibly become easier in the future, as Democrat appeals sound more and more like shrill abstractions. Bringing “diversity” crowds into the “bourgeoisie” is a powerful incentive.”
Sadly he had to do this by attacking Trump’s policy. This makes him either a never Trumper or a hypocrite.
Mexico landslide elects another revolutionary
Demographics are indeed destiny
always has been since time began
Ask the Etruscans
Ask the Illyrians
Ask the Comanches
Ask the Incas
Ask the Roman Empire
Persian Empire
Existing aboriginal Indians when the Aryans arrived
The Canaanites
The Serbs ...ask them a lot
We are fools to think we can dangle enough carrots to convince the world wholly unlike us to become us
I dunno, it’s still the same old game though, embrace mass, unregulated immigration, or else “demographics” will doom you.
Just like Frisco now, take a dump wherever you want. Need to shoot up? Clean needles and a safe place at the Denver Public library, NARCAN onsite if you screw up.
Nope. "Strong" is not the correct word. Unless we define Cheating == Strong. Or define "embracing Alinsky while your opponents shun him" as = "Strong".
They cheated & lied their way to complete victory in each of the last two Re-Districtings.
After the 2000 Census, Re-D responsibility was jointly in the hands of the Guv (GOP Bill Owens), the State House (solid GOP control) & the State Senate (barely Dem controlled by 1 vote). The Sen Majority leader was an ultra slimy Loveland tort-trial lawyer-shark named Stan Matsunaka. State house GOP did their job, working w/ their Dem minority to produce a plan they considered a fair compromise, and if anything was a little TOO fair to the Dems.
But "Taxunaka" (as he was endearingly called by Republicans), used every trick in the book to stall and stall and obfuscate and stall, while hiding his true intentions. Owens even invoked a special legislative session in the summer to address just the Re-D, as the deadline was fast approaching.
It turned out that the Dems never had any intention of coming up with a plan before the deadline.
The law had a failsafe clause that gave responsibility to a judge if the legislature and Governor failed to agree on time. And our Judiciary was completely corrupted by ultra leftist appointments from decades of democratic governors - Lamm, Romer, etc. It was patently obvious - but no proof of course - that there was collusion between Senate Dems & judiciary. Because Matsunaka knew exactly which judge would be selected by the Judiciocracy to produce a Re-Districting plan.
The GOP statehouse submitted their compromise plan. Guv Owens added his endorsement. But whatta ya know? Surprise, surprise!! A ridiculously partisan plan suddenly showed up out of left field, and I do mean left field. It was a plan from senate Dems to gerrymander the state to squeeze out every last possible advantage for the Rats. The judge enthusiastically adopted the Rat plan 100% while totally ignoring any others.
NEXT EPIC FAIL: POST-2010 CENSUS:
So the GOP cried, "Learned our lesson! Won't get fooled again! Just wait 10 yrs!" And they set up the laughingly named "Nonpartisan" Commission as if that word actually defines any living human being in the US anymore.
This Pie in the Sky Fantasy means you create a panel with an odd number of members, such that each party gets (N-1)/2 slots, and the last remaining slot goes to somebody who both sides can agree on. Somebody who both sides think they can reason with. Somebody who both sides hope will give them a fair shake.
In other words, a process just BEGGING to be Alinskyized.
The only truly crucial piece of the entire process is, "How does the sole non-partisan member get selected?" And the way it worked out is that the then- GOP State party chairman, a proud member of the eGOP, got a call from a judge (and remember what I said about Colorado judges), who was the go-between twixt the Dems & GOP for this crucial selection.
And the judge wanted to highly recommend to the GOP chair a certain upstanding citizen, who although he was technically a registered Democrat, had once in recent years donated $$ to the campaign of a West Slope GOP Congressman. Incredibly, this was sufficient proof to our chairman that a truly nonpartisan citizen was being recommended to us by the fine, completely trustworthy, non-partisan Democrats who reside just a short handshake across the aisle from us.
But then again, this is the same State GOP chair, who, if memory serves correctly, also "vetted" Dan Maes for the Governor race - the most disastrous candidate we've ever had in Colo at any level.
So ...... any guesses as to what kind of a Re-Districting Plan came out of the 2010-2011 "Nonpartisan" Commission?
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