Colorado is famously liberal
The republicans took every shitty thing they said they hated about other countries like Russia, China and even North Korea and made those things goals.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
If you lived there you’d know it’s optics. They’re libertarian in Denver and Boulder and the rest of the state is red. There’s even sundown towns. You can smoke pot and marry your bro but you better both have beards and like fishing or else you’re getting fitted for the barbwire fence.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Sounds like Ohio with mountains and better PR
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Wow. That is an amazing description. Yeah kind of. I never thought of that before. And Ohio DID just import a shit ton of tech companies too so it’s almost exactly like the Silicon exodus to Colorado ten years ago.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 4 weeks ago
Deeply wrong
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
www.270towin.com/states/colorado
Perhaps not famously, but Blue in presidential races and overall in the house since 2008.
All the governors but two since 78
2024 is showing signs of slowing or gerrymandering attempts.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 4 weeks ago
So it’s a purple state that has been shifting liberal. Which means…not famously liberal.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Issue is, critique of those regimes started to be worded “tactically”, to make it seem those problems are unique to those systems, or even silenced completely, and at worst just inventing nonexistent problems of theirs. In Hungary, we no longer hear about arrest quotas of the secret police since 2014, the issue of the Hungarian youth under the communist regime of not being able to wear Levi jeans and Adidas shoes are exaggerated to comical degrees, but now we also have urban legends that the Rákosi and Kádár regimes wanting to implement stuff that are out of current day culture war bullshit.