A Mile High And Rising

 I was living in California when the Denver Broncos finally won a Super Bowl. Where I lived at that time was not the issue. The issue was that the Denver Broncos finally won a Super Bowl. I felt the stirrings in my Rocky Mountain roots way out on the Left Coast. I had a similar vicarious thrill when, in 2012, the Mile High State legalized the sale of marijuana. It took another four years for California to catch up to that milestone. 

Which is fine, because it takes a village, and if enough of those villages band together they can accomplish most anything. 

Like when I heard that folks in Colorado were trying to get the former game show host and multiple indictment convicted harasser of women and thinking human beings kicked off the ballot for the coming year's presidential primary, I cheered. The initial attempts were stalled at the point where the bloated sack of protoplasm was declared guilty of insurrection, but not in such a way that would preclude him from participating in the electoral process. 

On December 19, 2023, The Supreme Court of Colorado said, "Not so fast, Bankrupt Casino Manager." They declared former "President" Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot. 

Until such time as this decision will most undoubtedly be ratcheted up to the next highest court, and ultimately to the previously stacked United States Supreme Court where the Constitution has been left in tatters over the previous three years. Imagine a world in which an insurrectionist is allowed to run for the highest office in the land, but women are forbidden from making their own reproductive choices. 

Sadly, I can. 

But for the time being, I am proud to be a Native Coloradan, and I support the decision made by my home state's legal authority. In the words of the Once-ler, "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."