Just come to Pueblo Colorado. This stupid town should be the international monument to union stupidity. We had the largest steel mill west of the Mississippi, Rockwool Insulation, and Aplha Beta Meat Packing, All three of these major employers were destroyed by unions. The steel mill collapsed, Rockwool collapsed and Alpha Beta said the union needed to renegotiate and of course the union said no, They closed up shop and left the next day. Pueblo has never recovered and still clings to the stupid unions.
I spent a wonderful year in a prep school in Carbondale, and had a friend in Evergreen, but -— Colorado has left both the American way and forsaken it’s Western heritage.
Largely, the Boulder Dementia Syndrome (BDS)has taken over. I was unaware that Pueblo has succumbed to BDS.
I still hope that a strong dose of reality will return Colorado to its past way of life. But, I have been accused of undue optimism before.