Posted on 05/03/2024 10:01:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The legislature is playing “Dems Gone Wild,” and the Republicans, having destroyed their own party, can offer no serious resistance. This is Colorado’s basic political problem. Is there still time to set Colorado back on the path of personal and economic liberty?
Yes, a lot of Colorado’s history is decidedly non-libertarian, using that term loosely. Start with the abuse of Native peoples, including the Sand Creek Massacre. Original proposals for statehood did not allow black people to vote, and other racist policies continued into statehood. In 1880 a white mob rioted in Denver’s Chinatown. Colorado once was home to robust eugenics and Klan movements.
Still, Colorado culture also bears the deep grooves of liberty. Black leaders including William Jefferson Hardin, Barney Ford, and Joseph H. Stuart fought for equal rights. Colorado was the first state to achieve women’s suffrage, in 1893.
During the second World War, Republican governor Ralph Carr opposed the internment of Japanese Americans and spoke eloquently of equal rights for all. He said, “If a majority may deprive a minority of its freedom, contrary to the terms of the Constitution today, then you as a minority may be subjected to the same ill-will of the majority tomorrow. . . . An American citizen of Japanese descent has the same rights as any other citizen. . . . If you harm them, you must first harm me. I was brought up in small towns where I knew the shame and dishonor of race hatred. I grew to despise it.”
Jared Polis, the first gay governor of the state as well as the first Jewish governor here, made his fortune as a tech entrepreneur. He summarized, “We’re a state that values freedom.”
(Excerpt) Read more at pagetwo.completecolorado.com ...
Colorado business entities will vote with their feet.
They always say they did learn and will do it right this time. And there are always plenty of people who believe them.
No hope for my state.
We moved out of CO in 1993.
The only thing I miss is the beauty of the Mountains.
Not going back except to visit friends who can’t escape!
” Start with the abuse of Native peoples, including the Sand Creek Massacre.”
Once again with the Sand Creek bullcrap. Nobody ever seems to mention the Hungate family.
“On June 11, Nathan rode out with a hired hand, Mr. Miller, looking for stray heads of cattle. Several miles from the ranch, they saw smoke coming from the area of Hungate’s cabin and suspected an attack by American Indians. Miller said that he was riding for Denver and advised Hungate that his family was likely dead and if he went back to the cabin he would be killed, too. Hungate rode back to find that his cabin was on fire and his family had been killed and badly mutilated. He was captured and was similarly killed. The couple was in their twenties, Laura was 2 1⁄2 years of age, and Florence was a 6 month-old infant.
Miller made it to Denver and gave news of the attack to Van Wormer, who rode to the ranch to find the Hungate family dead. Nathan Hungate’s body was badly mutilated with 80 bullets, and was found a distance from the house. The bodies of Ellen and the two girls were found mutilated, bound together, and thrown into a shallow well. All of the family’s stock had been taken and the buildings were burned down”
When the US was locked in the civil war, the indians saw it as an opportunity and made first class assholes of themselves. Cheyenne and Arapaho attacked wagons constantly. They raided innocent people like the Hungates constantly.
The Sioux launched the Santee rebellion.
Lord how they howl when they get hit back. They legends grow spectacular.
And no, Colorado is gone and cannot be saved anymore. It’s a one party state like California or Massachusetts.
Colorado has been Californicated.
Way to p-off Wyoming, dude.
“During the second World War, Republican governor Ralph Carr opposed the internment of Japanese Americans and spoke eloquently of equal rights for all.”
And once again...no mention of the Niihau Incident.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_incident
It was a primary mover that convinced the government to intern Japanese. Especially those that were born in Japan.
On December 7, 1941, Airman First Class Shigenori Nishikaichi, who had taken part in the second wave of the Pearl Harbor attack, crash-landed his battle-damaged aircraft, an A6M2 Zero “B11-120” ,from the carrier Hiryu, in a Ni’ihau field near where native Hawaiian Hawila Kaleohano was standing. Kaleohano was unaware of the attack at Pearl Harbor, but knew from newspapers that the relationship between the U.S. and Japan was poor because of disputes over Japanese expansionism and the resulting U.S. oil embargo on Japan. Recognizing Nishikaichi and his plane as Japanese, Kaleohano seized Nishikaichi’s pistol and papers before Nishikaichi could react. He and the other Hawaiians who gathered about treated Nishikaichi with courtesy and traditional Hawaiian hospitality, and held a party for him later that afternoon. However, the Hawaiians could not understand Nishikaichi, who spoke limited English. They sent for issei Ishimatsu Shintani, who was married to a native Hawaiian, to translate.
Having been briefed on the situation beforehand and approaching the task with distaste, Shintani exchanged just a few words with Nishikaichi and departed without explanation. The puzzled Hawaiians then sent for Yoshio Harada, who was born in Hawaiʻi of Japanese ancestry, and his wife Irene (born Umeno Tanaka on Kauai), who constituted the remainder of the Niʻihau population of Japanese ancestry. Nishikaichi informed Harada of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Harada chose not to share the information with the non-Japanese natives. Nishikaichi desperately wanted his papers returned, as he had been instructed not to let them fall into American hands, but Kaleohano refused to return them. The Haradas decided to help Nishikaichi retrieve his papers and escape.
It wound up in a shootout. The Jap shot a Hawaiian. The Japanese born Hawaiians who had been there for decades, married to Hawaiians joined in to help. A Samoan killed the Jap pilot by breaking him over a rock wall, and hitting him with a rock on the head. The issei farmer committed suicide.
Add in that Japanese spies were a big assist in the planning of Pearl Harbor.
Those two Japanese families were long term assimilated. That freaked out the Government.
And Yes, Colorado is gone.
A few interesting points in the article, but I get so tired of the mandatory leftist “America sucks” catechism always getting recited.
Sand Creek, Japanese Internment, old white guys... blah blah blah.
And they wonder why college kids despise this country.
Individualists will never organize so they will always be marginalized politically.
The only individualists who have any clout are those who acquire large amounts of wealth. Then they can pay for the legislation they want.
Sec of State Jenna Griswold, Governor Polis, AG Phil Weiser.
The three highest state offices. 2/3 communist supermajorities in the House 46/19 and Senate 23/12.
The only hope for a little respite is that the three highest elected in the state are Jewish, and the regular communist democrats in the legislature want to support Hamas.
So maybe some party infighting will make them briefly less effective. Weak tea, but it’s the only hope at the moment.
Sec of State Jenna Griswold, Governor Polis, AG Phil Weiser.
The three highest state offices. 2/3 communist supermajorities in the House 46/19 and Senate 23/12.
The only hope for a little respite is that the three highest elected in the state are Jewish, and the regular communist democrats in the legislature want to support Hamas.
So maybe some party infighting will make them briefly less effective. Weak tea, but it’s the only hope at the moment.
“We’re a state that values freedom.”
To be fair, he only means freedom for his people.
Folks who don’t vote for him are losing their freedom very very quickly.
I once consideedr retiring there. No way now.
sounds like california to me
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