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Colorado’s one-party rulers steadily chip away at democracy
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- Freedom Unaffiliated
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- May 13, 2026
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- 344
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Summary
Another week, another column about Colorado’s ruling class treating democracy like a state trooper treats the speed limit. It’s for other people. I swear, I want to write about literally anything else — aliens, sports, lab-grown meat, Bigfoot opening a vape shop in Pueblo. But Colorado’s legislature has never been more abusive to the citizenry, or hypocritical. The kings of Colorado To save time, I won’t rehash the endless “No Kings,” “Trump is destroying democracy,” “our sacred duty is protecting democracy, so be happy you have us” self-promotion constantly ejaculated by Colorado’s ruling class. But, for the sake of argument, let’s pretend every word of it is true. Let’s assume President Donald Trump wakes every morning and convenes a joint special-forces meeting to steal democracy in Colorado. If democracy is truly hanging by a thread, then surely Colorado’s Democrat majority is heroically defending it. I mean, they say that’s their job one, next to banning ketchup packets ( Senate Bill 146 , seriously). Which leaves me confused. Because from my tiny little “just-a-citizen” brain perspective, they seem to spend an awful lot of time removing voters’ power, hiding meetings, dodging taxpayer consent and nullifying ballot initiatives. Maybe I’m missing the advanced theory of democracy taught only in elite government seminars and overpriced Aspen retreats. Take Senate Bill 150 . It strips away two-thirds of RTD’s publicly elected board seats and replaces them with appointees. Silly me. I thought democracy involved electing people. But apparently true democracy is when insiders choose insiders to protect the public from the dangerous unpredictability of… the public. Then there’s House Bill 1326 , which exempts the all-powerful Public Utilities Commission from open meetings…