{"id":1941009,"date":"2023-05-31T00:06:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T04:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-how-flipping-colorado-blue-has-become-democrats-blueprint-for-the-rest-of-us\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T00:11:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T04:11:21","slug":"in-depth-how-flipping-colorado-blue-has-become-democrats-blueprint-for-the-rest-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-how-flipping-colorado-blue-has-become-democrats-blueprint-for-the-rest-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipping Colorado blue is now the Democrats&#8217; blueprint for the rest of the US."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fin-depth-how-flipping-colorado-blue-has-become-democrats-blueprint-for-the-rest-of-us%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1941009&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Democrats\u2019 Plan to Transform Colorado<\/h2>\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0529\/0be08dad-732a-4d58-bad2-c86b9f6d1d1b\/audio.mp3?length=13667373&#038;duration=1139\"><\/div>\n<p>Colorado\u2019s legislative session is 120 days long, and lawmakers introduced 617 bills during the <a href=\"https:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bill-search?field_sessions=92641&#038;sort_bef_combine=field_bill_number%20ASC&#038;field_chamber=All&#038;field_bill_type=75\">2023 session<\/a>. Of those, 218 passed and have been signed into law by Democrat Gov. Jared Polis. More are waiting to be signed.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have a historic majority in the Colorado House, a supermajority in the Senate, and control the governorship. As such, all of those bills passed with Democrat support\u2014and more often than not, over Republicans\u2019 vehement objections. It\u2019s a marked change from 2002, when the GOP dominated politics in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Republican state Rep. Stephanie Luck is one of a handful of Colorado representatives fighting back and trying to expose what she describes as Democrats\u2019 Marxist agenda, in which individual rights don\u2019t matter and the government controls every aspect of life.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen I first got elected and sworn into office in 2021, Governor Polis gave his State of the State address shortly thereafter and stated that it was his goal and the goal of his Democratic majority to fundamentally transform Colorado,\u201d Luck told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, the question becomes, what was the initial foundation they want to transform? And I would point us to the mission statement of the United States, which is the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd basically, we could go word by word in that most famous phrase starting with \u2018We hold these truths.\u2019 We can start with the word \u2018We\u2019 and demonstrate how they want not a \u2018We,\u2019 not a unified whole, not one nation, but different tribes, different groupings, different identities, and then just go every single word and recognize that they really are advancing the opposite of that mission statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that is what Governor Polis and the Democrats have been doing in Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4565023\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/06\/28\/declaration-of-independence-1819-1200x788.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/06\/28\/declaration-of-independence-1819-1200x788.jpeg\" alt=\"The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, circa 1792, by John Trumbull. (Public Domain)\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4565023\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>The Blueprint<\/h3>\n<p>Luck refers to the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/The_Blueprint.html?id=tyOng_zxuw0C\">book<\/a> \u201cThe Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care),\u201d by Adam Schrager and Rob Witwer.<\/p>\n<p>It details how, in the summer of 2004, progressive organizations and a group of multimillionaires\u2014including Colorado\u2019s now-governor Polis\u2014devised a plan to elect a Democratic majority. The group called themselves the Roundtable.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cEveryone had a common goal and it wasn\u2019t to win friends. It was to win elections. That was the measure by which they would succeed or fail,\u201d Schrager writes. He adds that the group\u2019s main avenues to flip Colorado blue were an extensive organization, a deep understanding of data, and, arguably the most effective, taking advantage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-flipping-colorado-blue-has-become-democrats-blueprint-for-the-rest-of-america\/\" title=\"Colorado's blue flip is now the Democrats' national blueprint.\">campaign finance reform laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Joshua Dunn, a professor of political science at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, agrees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a well-orchestrated Democratic plan to take control of the state. \u2026 [The Roundtable] was smart,\u201d he told The Epoch Times. \u201cThey were smarter than the Republicans. I think the Republicans will tell you that they were outsmarted by them. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were well organized, disciplined, and they imposed discipline on people who wanted their support. They had requirements for people\u2014particularly in local races if you wanted to get support from them\u2014you had to go and knock on a certain number of doors.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to organization and discipline, Schrager notes that the group understood that swaying state politics could have an outsized effect on politics at the federal level.<\/p>\n<p>By taking advantage in the early 2000s of tax-exempt 527 organizations, so named because they are organized under Section 527 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, the Roundtable raised $3.6 million, while Republicans raised $845,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn hindsight, it\u2019s remarkable how quickly members of the Roundtable adapted to the new campaign finance reality. While national political groups were beginning to use 527s \u2026 in 2004, it was unusual for state-based organizations to understand these exotic organizations and complex rules that governed them\u2014much less master them to the point that they could be used effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With a significant war chest for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-how-flipping-colorado-blue-has-become-democrats-blueprint-for-the-rest-of-us\/\" title=\"Flipping Colorado blue is now the Democrats' blueprint for the rest of the US.\">state-level elections established<\/a>, the group targeted Republican politicians. And they did so through targeted ads, leaflets, boots on the ground, automated calls, and a unified message that a Democratic majority was better for Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Schrager quotes Polis as saying: \u201cWe really didn\u2019t truly know how big this would become. Clearly, when we started, we had no idea. I didn\u2019t know this would have great historical significance, nor did anybody there that we would transform Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3594632\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/11\/26\/colorado-jared-polis-1200x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/11\/26\/colorado-jared-polis-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks in Highlands Ranch, Colo., on May 8, 2019. (Michael Ciaglo\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3594632\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>A \u2018Marxist\u2019 Agenda<\/h2>\n<p>Colorado has since shifted to the left.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve obviously moved to the left. There\u2019s no doubt because there\u2019s been nothing to put the brakes on for [Democrats],\u201d Dunn said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou saw that with this past legislative session. \u2026 There were a lot of really controversial pieces of legislation. \u2026 Even the stuff that didn\u2019t make it through, the fact that it was being considered kind of tells you where they\u2019re trying to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Polis wouldn\u2019t have minded Republicans controlling one house of the state Legislature just to limit the bills that made it to him where he had to make a difficult choice.<\/p>\n<h2>Colorado State Rep. Luck: Democrats Pushing Marxist Agenda Through Legislation<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cEither support his own party, which would require him to sign some legislation that might undermine a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/book-obama-enamored-with-beto-orourke-skeptical-of-joe-biden-in-2020-democratic-primary\/\" title=\"Book: Obama \u2018Enamored\u2019 with Beto O\u2019Rourke, Skeptical of Joe Biden in 2020 Democratic Primary\">general election campaign<\/a> for president, or veto and anger his own caucus.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Colorado State Representative Stephanie Luck believes that the Democrats are pushing a Marxist agenda through their legislation. She argues that the Democrats are undermining the fundamental rights of the people, including the right to property, contract, and liberty. <\/p>\n<h3>The Right to Property<\/h3>\n<p>Luck argues that the right to property is an inalienable right that our founders understood was necessary for a free people. However, she believes that many of her colleagues don\u2019t understand that property is inherent to oneself. She says that they see property and wealth building almost through a lens of evil. Those who have are somehow inherently bad because they \u2018have.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>She cites Senate Bill 23-184, \u201cProtections for Residential Tenants,\u201d which prohibits landlords from considering certain information relating to a prospective tenant\u2019s income or rental history. Luck believes that this bill, and others like it, are making it too risky for landlords to rent property in Colorado, and as a result, they are selling their properties to large corporations. <\/p>\n<h3>The Right to Protect One\u2019s Life and Liberty<\/h3>\n<p>Luck also believes that the Democrats are removing the right to protect one\u2019s life and liberty. She cites Senate Bill 23-169, which increased the minimum age to purchase firearms to 21, with limited exceptions. A day later, Democrats passed Senate Bill 23-168, which repeals protections for firearms and ammunition manufacturers. Now, if someone is injured with a gun or ammunition, they can sue the manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>Luck sees the Second Amendment right as a corollary to the right to life. She argues that you can\u2019t have the right to life and property and liberty if you can\u2019t defend that right. <\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>Luck believes that the Democrats are fundamentally transforming the right to property, contract, and liberty. She argues that Colorado will just see worse and worse outcomes unless people change their way of thinking. She believes that the government is not the solution, and unless people realize this, we will just spiral downwards.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Supporting his own party<\/strong> would require him to sign some legislation that might undermine a general election campaign for president, or veto and anger his own caucus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Senate Bill 23-184<\/strong> prohibits landlords from considering certain information relating to a prospective tenant\u2019s income or rental history.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Senate Bill 23-169<\/strong> increased the minimum age to purchase firearms to 21, with limited exceptions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Senate Bill 23-168<\/strong> repeals protections for firearms and ammunition manufacturers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<figure>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.example.com\/image.jpg\" alt=\"buyback event held by the office of the New York State Attorney General in the Brooklyn borough of New York on April 29, 2023.\"><figcaption>Buyback event held by the office of the New York State Attorney General in the Brooklyn borough of New York on April 29, 2023. (Yuki Iwamura\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>The Dangers of One-Party Rule<\/h2>\n<p>According to political analyst John Dunn, there is always a risk when one political party has too much power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can go too far,\u201d he warns.<\/p>\n<h3>Examples of One-Party Rule<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>China&#8217;s Communist Party<\/li>\n<li>Russia&#8217;s United Russia Party<\/li>\n<li>Cuba&#8217;s Communist Party<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These examples show how one-party rule can lead to the silencing of opposition and the suppression of dissenting voices.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to maintain a balance of power in any political system to ensure that all voices are heard and represented.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t let one party silence your voice. Get involved in the political process and make your voice heard.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Colorado, 617 bills were introduced during the 120-day legislative session in 2023. 218 bills have been signed into law by Governor Jared Polis, with more awaiting his signature. 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