Hope for Colorado conservatives: Why small steps still count in a blue state
By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project
Hope for conservatives in Colorado
Being a conservative or Republican in Blue Colorado is tough. I have noted multiple emails and comments on my writing that fall somewhere along the lines of “it’s hopeless” or “why bother getting involved, it won’t change anything?”
I understand the sentiment. The thing is, situations are hopeless until they aren’t. Things won’t change until they do.
What I mean is that change is not a sweeping jump. Change, whether in your life, in nature, in Colorado’s politics, is more often than not a gradual process. Think more water wearing down rock than mountains crumbling in an earthquake.
Doing nothing because it will not immediately fix the problem is the wr...

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