Colorado Democrats plot to overturn the will of their voters

The Democratic Party will ramble on about the sanctity of democracy in one breath and insist in the next that it must overturn any result it dislikes. Such is the case in Colorado, where Democrats are already planning to shred ballot propositions voters just passed.Last week, Colorado voters passed several propositions that run counter to the state Democratic Party’s platform. Two of them, Propositions 134 and 135, address transgenderism by barring male athletes from girls’ sports and banning sex-change surgeries for transgender minors. The other two, Propositions 132 and 133, address crime by increasing penalties for possessing or selling fentanyl and making child sex trafficking punishable by life in prison. On the same ballot, Colorado voters gave Democrats a projected legislative supermajority and elected Democrat Phil Weiser governor by nearly 28 points. And because punishing criminals and protecting children from the imposition of transgenderism are outside the Democratic Party’s priorities, Weiser is already considering how he and Colorado Democrats can alter those measures.Speaking about Propositions 134 and 135, Weiser said, “We’re going to have to take a look at these anti-trans measures and what adjustments are necessary and appropriate.”On Proposition 132, Weiser said outright that he doesn’t want to put people who possess or sell fentanyl in jail.“We’re going to figure out what we do about that,” he said.Top Democrats in the Colorado legislature are already working with opponents of the propositions to figure out how best to water them down or, more likely, repeal them.MELAT KIROS DOESN’T COMMIT TO SUPPORTING JEFFRIES SPEAKER BID: ‘STILL UP IN THE AIR’Colorado Democrats tolerate the statewide ballot proposition system because it helps them pawn off responsibility for destructive policies they support. If a majority of voters back a proposition (or four) that violates Democratic Party dogma, even in a Democratic wave year, Colorado Democrats will simply intervene and erase it.Colorado Democrats are giving voters the illusion of choice, treating them like children who can’t make decisions for themselves. To the Democratic Party, democracy is a rhetorical tool that helps Democrats pretend their agenda is more popular than it is. They can discard it whenever the will of the voters clashes with the party’s narrative.