Jon Caldara nails it with this piece—Colorado's 2025 election was a textbook slide into soft socialism, courtesy of out-of-state billionaires and voters addicted to "free stuff" at someone else's expense. Michael Bloomberg dropping $5 million to ban adult Denverites from enjoying a legal Swisher Sweet (while weed shops and psychedelic mushrooms thrive) isn't about protecting kids—it's classic nanny-state hypocrisy from a New York elitist who couldn't regulate his own backyard. And Props LL and MM? Pure class warfare: taxing productive Coloradans to expand a failing "free lunch" program that's already in the red and doesn't even buy local food. This is the cocaine of democratic socialism Caldara warns about—start with "free" sandwiches for everyone, end with punitive progressive taxes driving businesses and high-earners out, just like California and New York.

Thank God voters finally learned something from the wolf reintroduction disaster and shot down the slaughterhouse and fur bans, proving not everyone's bought into the eco-radical agenda yet. But overall? Depressing. If we keep letting Bloomberg and his ilk buy our ballots, Colorado won't just be "more California than California"—we'll be a one-party playground for controlling busybodies who think government can solve everything from climate change (while China laughs) to your corner-store cigar choice. Time to wake up, fight back against the tax-and-spend machine, and reclaim the live-and-let-live spirit that made this state great. Limited government isn't dead yet—let's keep it that way!