Posted on 03/25/2026 5:20:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
ocky Mountain high, Colorado,” sang John Denver, AKA Henry Duetschendorf Jr. in 1972. Those were heady days for Colorado. Ski resorts, the Rockies, natural beauty aplenty and the promise of new beginnings enticed many, including me, to move to Colorado. My stay on the west slope was brief, and over the years, Colorado has descended from a more-or-less business-friendly and affordable state to a Democrat People’s Republic, increasingly crowded and hostile to civil liberties and prosperity.
I occasionally travel to Colorado Springs for service on my recumbent trike and bike at the best recumbent shop in this part of the country. The traffic on I-35 is always horrific, driving through Denver is a nightmare and road construction and delays are eternal. I yet have friends and family in Colorado. My family worries about entrusting their still-infant kids to Colorado schools when the time comes. They also worry about Colorado’s increasingly draconian anti-liberty/gun laws.
They have other worries too. Colorado is facing a $1.5+ billion dollar budget shortfall, a half-billion more than expected. Republicans blame Democrat overspending. Democrats blame Republicans for noticing.
Coloradans are also noticing increasing power outages. Colorado currently is 26th in the nation for power outages and is 27th for the number of power customers affected. At Complete Colorado, Jon Caldera has noticed—when his lights have been on. He’s noticed that Colorado can be windy.
But only in the last few months have I witnessed our power utilities preemptively turning off electricity during high winds to “prevent fires.”
Caldera is suspicious:
Is Colorado suddenly windier than it has been during my entire life? Unless our eyes have been lying to us, the answer is comfortably: no.
Yet, I type this under an official warning that my power might be turned off because of another rather normal day
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Thanks Mountain Climber.
I am still in Colorado Springs, unfortunately.
Looking to relocate to Florida this year.
I grew up in Pueblo. It was a decent place back in the 70s and 80s. Then the drugs came in and so did the higher-than-normal rates of illegals. We always had them, but they usually went home after the harvest seasons. In the late 80s and 90s we started seeing a criminal element coming up from Old Mexico and staying. My dad, God Bless Him, worked his ass off to buy the property he always wanted up in Rye, and he’s had it for about five years now, but he just bought a place in North Carolina. I NEVER thought I’d see that man leave Colorado. Ever.
See ya there! ;-D
If anyone is interested here is how they originally ‘flipped’ Colorado here is a link to “Rocky Mountain Heist”.
It is hosted by that native Coloradan Michelle Malkin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIv-rvja7Sc
This was done prior to Eric Holder coming to Denver to set up the Colorado ‘template’ to flip the Texas and the other Western States so that Phase 2 part is not in this video.
Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
Same Day Voter Fraud Act.- show up on Election Day with only a utility bill, get registered and vote a ballot..
May 2013 .. The bill passed 20-15 with the full support of Democrats .. The bill passed the House on a party-line vote.. signed by John Hickenlooper.
“Democrats blame Republicans for noticing.”
LOL!
That is when everything changed.
Colorado: Rifle
I live here five years now after 45 years in north central Florida (daughter is the reason). We live on a rock across from the Rifle airport overlooking I 70. Traffic rush starts east at 5 am, headed upvalley to Aspen and points on the way. Reverse rush three hour starts at 330 when everyone is stuck in Glenwood Springs.
There is no water, well water is frequently tainted with uranium, chromium, heavy metals, irrigation water is going to be scarce this year, there are no houses , lots of construction of cheaply built houses and tiny houses because worker bees have to live somewhere. Just about everyone with a half acre of land has RV campers with illegal rentals
The old bearded hunter crowd has gotten too old to hunt. The elk and deer have moved on from drought
And Garfield County is turning blue because the republican crowd has reelected the same retreads for the past 25 years.
Colorado has some amazing landscape. But too many people with too little time to bother to look. I”d leave but it would cost too much to move. I’m old.
Taxes are limited by legislation. But fees are not limited by anything. Government of idiots. And Xcel will rob you dark.
Lauren Boebert was my neighbor. Even she moved to a redder part of the state.
Core Electric Co-op killed the power to the entire mountain town of Sedalia on Monday, for 6 hours. No reason posted on their site.
State and local governments along with the power companies are systematically destroying the power grid while simultaneously destroying the environment and they’re spending money for TV ads bragging about it. Lots of ads.
Pre-planned societal collapse.
No doubt about it. The CO Dems are going full tilt in destruction mode.
Must be why they’re also going full tilt on gun control. That plan won’t work though.
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