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Fixing headline only reactions requires people to use critical thinking skills and to understand that stories have nuance and can't be boiled down to just a few words. That requires education which this country seems hellbent on eliminating
Having an abundance of laws on the books leads to real government inefficiencies and I think those are worth putting time and effort into eliminating. I know I used a lot of the same words as he who should actually get deported, so I feel it necessary to clarify that I do not agree at all with what him and the rest of administration is claiming to be making the government more efficient.
What I want is for people to actually read and think, even if it differs from my own thoughts. The whole reason I made my original comment is that the headline and reactions in this thread frame Polis as if he went out of his way to make collusion legal for land lords, and if people read the article and looked at Polis's track record that is objectively not what he did
So that's a no. You spent a lot of words to avoid saying the word no, but you seem to understand we cannot fix that problem in the short term.
So why do you insist on acting as if we have an informed electorate that will weigh their options and come to an informed decision? At what point do Democrats have to stop the wishful thinking and join us in reality?
If it helps, I'd like the same thing. But what we want doesn't matter. Winning elections does.
And for the record, I and a lot of other people read the article. Pretending 'everyone who comes to a different conclusion than you did is uninformed' is condescending. We simply choose to give credence to the activists that work for consumers over another corporate backed Democrat. "There are too many regulations on the books" is a right wing talking point and a nonsense excuse.
Edit: Open Secrets says the Real Estate industry is #2 in donations to Gov. Polis at $12,000.
I didn't use the word no because I felt my answer needed more explanation. Short term no, long term yes with a ton of caveats.
There's a difference between being uninformed and wilfully ignorant. Blasting politicians for there actions based on a headline is wilfully ignorant and yeah I'll call them fucking morons. And on a post about an article that people clearly didn't read, I'm inclined to call that out.
As for your reality, what's better? Willingly lie and manipulate the electorate expecting them to be too dumb or stupid to notice, manufacturer headlines, fabricate a whole new reality just to achieve political victory? I despise the republican party because that's exactly what they do
Have you read Colorado legislation? I haven't gotten through all of it, but there's a lot of stuff in there, some of it even contradictory or tied to things that have been obsolete for a hundred years. There's absolutely value in a system, government or otherwise, that attempts to minimize active rules and regulations, so I wildly disagree with your notion that minimizing regulations is a nonsense excuse. Regardless of its association of some talking head on Fox talking about the eViL FedERaL GuvMenT