Has Colorado become much more liberal due to Californian transplants? (buying, college)

[Thoreau424]

Originally Posted by Cage_50

It's been proven that those who identify with the democratic party are far more educated than the other side...It's well-known and proven.

It's easy to see if one has his/her eyes open, brain plugged in, and can resist being a puppet of the foaming-at-the-mouth types.

[jwiley]

Originally Posted by Cage_50

It's been proven that those who identify with the democratic party are far more educated than the other side. I see people trying to deny this, and I'm not sure why. It's well-known and proven.

Do not mistake education for intelligence, after all education is designed to make you a good follower/employee in the corporate world.

[jwiley]

As Colorado's economy has diversified into tech and the financial sector has grown to become the center of the rocky mountain region it has attracted more liberals, as they seem to be rampant in those sectors. That said there are areas that are more conservative than they were in the past as well. Overall I expect the majority to vote democrat/liberal due to the population of the front range.

[Thoreau424]

I have unique insights into the party affiliations here - which I won't elaborate on - but the largest trend has been for people to move to the middle (change from the major parties to Unaffiliated). That includes existing residents and newcomers (the latter typically starting off Unaffiliated).

With actual state statistics and data, there is no mythical blue/pink runaway train. It's just rubbish from the excitable, unstable, and extremist right.

[Hschlick84]

Originally Posted by jwiley

As Colorado's economy has diversified into tech and the financial sector has grown to become the center of the rocky mountain region it has attracted more liberals, as they seem to be rampant in those sectors. That said there are areas that are more conservative than they were in the past as well. Overall I expect the majority to vote democrat/liberal due to the population of the front range.

Same thing with higher academia, Hollywood, government and the alphabet media. It's all a propaganda machine for the masses.

[SkyDog77]

Originally Posted by jwiley

Do not mistake education for intelligence, after all education is designed to make you a good follower/employee in the corporate world.

Maybe a business degree, but that is one of the very few degrees where there is a slight conservative lean in degree holders.

You can’t tell me a degree in mathematics, biology, or Astro physics is designed to make you a better follower/employee. These degrees hold heavy liberal leans from degree holders, as do most others with the exception of petroleum engineering.

[Westerner92]

Colorado, like everywhere else, is becoming more liberal due to younger people’s ability to fact check with reliable sources due to the internet. But now well-established sources with large vocabularies, science, math, and education are liberal conspiracy theories apparently.

[Westerner92]

Originally Posted by jwiley

Do not mistake education for intelligence, after all education is designed to make you a good follower/employee in the corporate world.

Lol, education is designed to teach rationality, and the skills learned are often not directly useful in the job market. The whole paradigm of Western innovation has been built off critical thinking and the Scientific Method.

An education doesn’t automatically make you more intelligent, but to argue that there’s no correlation is extremely unintelligent.

[Thoreau424]

Originally Posted by Westerner92

Colorado, like everywhere else, is becoming more liberal due to younger people’s ability to fact check with reliable sources due to the internet.

Well, checking reliable sources is a common problem these days across the board for Americans, regardless of age and political affiliation.

Regardless, it's easy to see far more reich-wingers immediately accepting and reacting to "information" on the Internet and in the media than moderates and liberals. It's becoming a deeply ingrained Pavlov's Dog response.

That GOP elephant needs to morph into a salivating pit bull.

[Westerner92]

Originally Posted by Thoreau424

Well, checking reliable sources is a common problem these days across the board for Americans, regardless of age and political affiliation.

Regardless, it's easy to see far more reich-wingers immediately accepting and reacting to "information" on the Internet and in the media than moderates and liberals. It's becoming a deeply ingrained Pavlov's Dog response.

That GOP elephant needs to morph into a salivating pit bull.

I’d be lying if I said I had never fallen for Russian propaganda, but the numbers are pretty damning. “Enlightened”, cynical, centrism and blaming both sides equally won’t solve the problem.

Conservatives retweeted Russian trolls 30 times more often than liberals.

Short of digging into the research paper and finding fundamental flaws with their methodology that would account for a bias that affects the results 30 fold, the numbers are damning, and this is far from the only study to corroborate.