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Colorado is going full California
American Thinker ^ | 12 Nov. 2026 | Mike McDaniel

Posted on 11/12/2026 5:27:37 AM PST by MtnClimber

Colorado Democrats aren't bothering to hide their disdain for Coloradans and liberty anymore.

California was once said to be the “laboratory of Democracy" that set the tone for the rest of the nation, but Colorado is hot on its heels. True, California hasn’t done that, except for its blue-state influence for a long time, and some of those states are working hard to out-Californicate California. Following the midterms, Colorado appears poised to influence, or at least largely reflect, congressional Democrat designs on America. The Washington Examiner explains:

Last week, Colorado voters passed several propositions that run counter to the state Democratic Party’s platform. Two of them, Propositions 134 and 135, address transgenderism by barring male athletes from girls’ sports and banning sex-change surgeries for transgender minors. The other two, Propositions 132 and 133, address crime by increasing penalties for possessing or selling fentanyl and making child sex trafficking punishable by life in prison.

Shouldn’t there be celebration in the Mile-High state? Shouldn’t Coloradans be universally praising the vindication of the will of the people? Yeah, not so much. As NYC Mayor Ed Koch said when he lost his fourth bid for office: “The people have spoken, and now they must be punished.”

On the same ballot, Colorado voters gave Democrats a projected legislative supermajority and elected Democrat Phil Weiser governor by nearly 28 points. And because punishing criminals and protecting children from the imposition of transgenderism are outside the Democratic Party’s priorities, Weiser is already considering how he and Colorado Democrats can alter those measures.

Speaking about Propositions 134 and 135, Weiser said, “We’re going to have to take a look at these anti-trans measures and what adjustments are necessary and appropriate.”

On Proposition 132, Weiser said outright that he doesn’t want

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: california; colorado; coloradodemocrats; democrats; jewcolonization; king; leftism; weiser

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1 posted on 11/12/2026 5:27:37 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Leftists always pick the most beautiful places to ruin.


2 posted on 11/12/2026 5:27:51 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Does anybody know how the trans movement has such power behind it? It’s taken over the Democrat party.


3 posted on 11/12/2026 5:30:10 AM PST by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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To: MtnClimber
Leftists always pick the most beautiful places to ruin.

Illinois too?
4 posted on 11/12/2026 5:30:16 AM PST by Old Yeller
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To: MtnClimber
It is amazing at the continuing trend of once reliable red states that have turned, and are turning, blue. Texas also being the latest example,,,,,,,sad.

The demographic changes seem unstoppable.

5 posted on 11/12/2026 5:35:12 AM PST by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. he)
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To: Old Yeller

Face it. Lefties ruin everything they get close to...everything. They are like relentless termites eating away at foundations of civility and sanity. Shun them.


6 posted on 11/12/2026 5:36:16 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: volare737

As to the elections...it is fraud and cheating that are overwhelming the system. Lefties know no bounds to their perfidy and insanity.


7 posted on 11/12/2026 5:37:50 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Vision

Does anybody know how the trans movement has such power behind it? It’s taken over the Democrat party.

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The Democrat Party is an association of mentally ill people.


8 posted on 11/12/2026 5:42:11 AM PST by TTFX
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To: Vision
"Does anybody know how the trans movement has such power behind it? It’s taken over the Democrat party."

At a guess, I would say it's all about the one world thing. Any nation that stands strong in their national government is in for rough time. They will do anything and every to destroy the cohesion of such a nation.

Maybe we should ask the UN and George Soros about it.

9 posted on 11/12/2026 6:04:35 AM PST by unread ( "Government of the people, by the people, for the people". If we lose it, it'll be our own fault.!)
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To: Vision
how the trans movement has such power behind it?

The libs are a collection of mismatched groups, a veritable collection of misfit toys and they all have one thing in common, they hate anything "Normal" and are working hard to bring down western values and bring down Christianity.

They all circle around the main group which was Dems, but now has become commies as a sort of giant black hole with enough gravity to bring them all into their fold.
10 posted on 11/12/2026 6:05:03 AM PST by The Louiswu (Good Luck!)
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To: MtnClimber

Colorado is fast becoming a failed state. Once a bastion of “cowboy values”, the translocation of the Left Coast “intellectuals” has overwhelmed that native good sense, and reduced Colorado to a level with much of New England states, and for the same reasons, invasion by Boston and NYC “intellectuals”.


11 posted on 11/12/2026 6:08:16 AM PST by alloysteel (Strength to make change happen, humility to accept reality, and wisdom to know the difference.)
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To: MtnClimber

Nope, California is a cancer that has metastasized across the United States.


12 posted on 11/12/2026 6:10:50 AM PST by Hootowl
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To: Vision

It’s a virtue signal aimed at Republicans and conservatives. Even the WNBA is anti-trans as is the NCAA. They both know it would destroy women’s $ports if men got universal access.


13 posted on 11/12/2026 6:11:29 AM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: Hootowl

The cancer should be surgically removed from the Union.


14 posted on 11/12/2026 6:13:47 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: unread; The Louiswu; AppyPappy

The trans issue has money and organization behind it. Where are they coming from? It’s cryptic.


15 posted on 11/12/2026 6:16:47 AM PST by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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To: MtnClimber

Isn’t Colorado and Texas, now in the race to the bottom ?


16 posted on 11/12/2026 6:25:31 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: MtnClimber; dynachrome; MileHi; backspace; Balata; bboop; Ben Dover; Benito Cereno; BigEdLB; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


17 posted on 11/12/2026 6:25:59 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Vision

Not only cryptic, it is impossible to control. When the university mentioned the need for more women in STEM positions, we “fixed” it in the Develop database by simply changing genders on some current employees.

If I claimed to be a woman, they were not allowed to question it.


18 posted on 11/12/2026 6:27:01 AM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: Vision

“The trans issue has money and organization behind it. Where are they coming from?”

Their spiritual father, the devil.


19 posted on 11/12/2026 6:28:25 AM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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To: Hootowl
Nope, California is a cancer that has metastasized across the United States.

Because it's easier to blame Californians than for Coloradans and Texans to look in the mirror and take responsibility for their own failures.

Oprah, Jerry Springer, Hollywood, and social media are as popular among Coloradans and Texans as anywhere else.

Plenty of native-born Coloradans and Texans with trashy tattoos and multiple divorces, raising kids in single parent households.

Plenty of native-born Coloradans and Texans who are single moms, OnlyFans sluts or customers, and virtue signaling leftists.

But it's comforting to pretend that all Coloradans and Texans are 1950s type, God-fearing, righteous cowboys and cowgirls, and it's only the California transplants who vote for freebies.

20 posted on 11/12/2026 6:41:38 AM PST by Angelino97
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