” - - - NM is rich in both energy and primary metals but getting them out of the ground is difficult these days with all the bureaucratic regulations whose purpose is mainly to prevent or stop extraction. - - - “
New Mexico and Colorado are two Democrat-infected States that owe much of their prosperity to the early mining activities of the workers that belonged to Socialist-infected Labor Unions.
Thus, the miners chose to join Socialist-infected Labor Unions, which then infected the Democrat Party in New Mexico and Colorado.
Both States have single large cities where the descendants of the miners have migrated after the Democrat Politicians have shut down the mines, and production of Oil and Gas.
These two large cities, (Albuquerque, and Denver), commonly out-vote the rest of their respective States’ more Rural voters.
In a larger sense, the love-hate ambivalence that New Mexico and Colorado Voters have towards loving good jobs, and hating the industries that provide these jobs, is a microcosm of the polarization that America has had for decades on the topics of Capitalism, and individual Liberty.
As New Mexico and Colorado goes, so goes America - - - - .
It is time, - - - time for a change in 2014.
In New Mexico, the most infected unions are the teachers and the government employee unions.