The Colorado suburbs are turning to the rats. The major cities except for Colorado Springs are solidly rat country. The rats have also made in roads in the rural areas by promising payments to farmers to keep land undeveloped and fighting natural resource development. Obama has strong support in Colorado.
The rats are trying to fundamentally change Colorado through their draconian energy policies and large tax increases. They are trying to stop oil, natural gas, and uranium development. They are stopping every new coal plant in favor of much more expensive wind and solar plants. They are trying to shred the taxpayer bill of rights. They passed a huge increase in property taxes through rate freezing.
The rats are solidly opposed to middle class suburban living. The rats oppose sprawl, SUVs, oil, and Walmart but love unions. Colorado is relatively prosperous so people just forget the policies that support economic growth. It will take a strong recession to wake up the public. The rats will find the usual scapegoats to blame but perhaps the public can see through their show. It is odd that the public will vote for rat policies (high energy taxes, severe energy development restrictions, racial preferences, and force union membership) when economic times are tightening.
No, it's not. People have not hurt enough, personally, yet. Times haven't gotten bad enough. For me, the best model is Britain in the 1970s. The Brits had a legacy of government support, the dole, featherbedded unions, subsidized everything, and their economy was absolutely crumbling. It took a horrible set of strikes in 1978-79, where garbage piled up and even the morticians went on strike, to get them to reverse course. We were in the same boat, really, with Nixon/Ford/Carter, all of whom had basically the same economic and environmental policies.
However, no matter how bad things get, Republicans will NOT be the solution until they stop parroting the Dems and adopt an entirely new language that does NOT accept "global warming," limits to America's oil production and consumption, and endless government handouts. The language needs to be blunt, and we need to NAME NAMES when saying "UDALL has caused your gas to be $4 a gallon. How's that working out for you?"