There’s a reason why Democrats are losing support left and right in the while country.
They’re simply Republican light.
CO resident here:
Polis didn’t veto the bill because he wanted to have rent raised in Colorado, or make collusion legal and anti-trust illegal, he vetoed the bill because what it was making illegal is already illegal here. Passing this new law would have done nothing except increase the number of laws on the books. Over the last few years Polis has made it a priority to remove superfluous laws from the books.
If this is causing Democrats to lose support, it’s not because of the policy, it’s because of the headline-only-reactions and refusal of so many voters to actually think about what it is they’re presented with
Do you think we can fix “headline only reactions” amongst voters, or do you think we should do things that make good headlines regardless of if it increases the number of laws, a metric absolutely nobody cares about?
It’s almost as if voters are human and we should care about what they think, rather than expect every voter to think like you do.
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.
“This veto sends the devastating message that corporate landlords can keep using secret price-fixing algorithms to take extra rent from people who have the least,”
Edit: Open Secrets says the Real Estate industry is #2 in donations to Gov. Polis at $12,000.