Democratic policies rejected in 'America, writ small' Colorado

By MICHAEL BARONE | NOVEMBER 13, 2013

 Colorado, writes National Journal's always-insightful Ronald Brownstein, is “America, writ small.” “A microcosm,” he goes on, “of the forces destabilizing American politics.”  Of course Colorado is not entirely typical of the nation. It has America’s lowest rates of obesity, for example — because of a young population and because most Coloradans live a mile or more above sea level. You burn more calories there just getting out of the car and walking to the mall.  Colorado has also been a success story for the Democratic Party. It voted twice for President Obama after voting Republican for president for years. It has a Democratic governor and legislature and two Democratic U.S. senators — a complete reversal from 10 years ago.

Much of that Democratic success can be ascribed to a few high-tech millionaires and trust-funders who banded together and shrewdly spent big bucks to advance Democratic and liberal causes, a process described definitively by Fred Barnes in the Weekly Standard.  But in the second Obama term, as things go sour for the president, they’re also going sour for Colorado’s liberal Democrats…..To Read More….

 

My Take – This fascinates me. A few really wealthy people banded together to elect people that want to steal their fortunes, and what really amazes me is that it matters. I don’t care how much money someone spent to promote abortion I would still be against it. I don’t’ care how much money was spent to promote gay marriage I would still be against it. I don’t care how much money was spent to promote all the leftist clabber on genetically modified organisms, global warming, pesticides, endocrine distupters, or any other clabber they promote, I would still be against it. Why? Because I know what I believe and why.

I’m always fascinated how polls can turn people against someone. If you really like Obama, why would all these setbacks make a difference? It was clear to anyone who could read, write, think and see what was going on now and for the last fifty years he was lying. If you really disliked Obama, what could he possibly do to make you like him? Why would the polls change because of a massive and expensive PR campaign?

The problem isn’t Obama. The problem is with the citizens of the nation. We’re ill read! We’re uninformed! We’re ill informed! We’re stupid! We don't read history!  The history we're taught is false! And as a result we're more stupid than all the other nations in the world combined, because we have access to more information than anyone alive today or throughout all of human history and fail to take advantage of it. Ignorance isn't an intellectual sin.  Ignorance is the natural state. It merely means we don't know, and when you consider how much information is available on so many subjects we're all ignorant about a huge number of things. It's the unwillingness to find out that makes us stupid. Far too many have no idea what they really believe, and are unwilling to find answers.  As a result we're are like waves crashing against the rocks; willingly following every new latest philosophical flavor of the day.  That’s what makes our society, which has access to more knowledge from more sources than anyone else in the world …..stupid!  Get over it!