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Rep. Steve Woodrow (D.-Denver) deleted his vicious X (formerly Twitter) post after running into a tempest of well-deserved outrage. But the fact that he posted the tweet in the first place offers some useful insights into the progressive gang that currently dominates Colorado.

After the failure of the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, most of us condemned the violence and condoled with Trump and his family. But Woodrow is not like the rest of us. Here was his response: The last thing America needed was sympathy for the devil but here we are.

For decent people, Woodrows tweet provokes the kind of revulsion we feel when we see a loathsome insect about to bite a baby. Let us, however, suppress our feelings and perform some entomology.

Consider first Woodrows equation between Trump and the devil. Although references to Satan are not common among progressivesthey are too secular for thatit is very common for them to confound conservatives and conservatism with evil. Thats why so many have called Trump Hitler and describe him as a fascist.

Of course, such comments are objectively absurd: When Trump was President, he was not a dictator. He was not as dedicated to smaller government as I would prefer, but he did work with Congress to lower taxes and deregulate. He certainly is not an anti-Semite: his own daughter is Jewishas is his son-in-law, whom he employed extensively in his administration. As President, Trump supported Israel a good deal more firmly than progressives do today.

Lets put this into perspective: Progressives have been slandering their political opponents this way for a very long time. Sixty years ago, they compared Senator Barry Goldwater (R.-Ariz.), the 1964 Republican presidential nominee, to Hitlerdespite the fact that Goldwater was half Jewish and about as libertarian as a national politician can be. Twenty years ago, they were defaming Republican President George W. Bush as Hitler. More recently, Hillary Clinton slimed nearly half the country as deplorables.

This sort of filth tells us more about progressives than about their targets. It tells us how they see the rest of us.

You may have heard the adage, Conservatives think liberals are stupid and liberals think conservatives are evil. Leftists equation of Republicans with the devil and with Naziism and fascism is emblematic of the latter half of the adage.

Im not a psychologist, so I wont try to identify all the reasons leftists think their opponents are evil. However, I think it has something to do with the bubble in which they live. Conservatives and moderates cannot escape the ubiquity of leftist propaganda. Leftists political messages are plastered even on our garbage truckswhere, perhaps, they belong. On the other hand, progressives can go through life without ever seeing Fox News, or the New York Post. They absorb unrebutted drivel served up by government-subsidized college professors and the mainstream propaganda media.

So I would not be surprised if Woodrow still believes Trump was elected in 2016 because he conspired with Russian oligarchs. And Id lay even money he continues to believe that in Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump proclaimed neo-Nazis and white supremacists to be very fine people. Even President Biden repeated that lie as recently as June 27.

You can see how a person absorbing such unrebutted propaganda might think Trump is diabolical.

As a former political activist, Ive long known that Progressives tend to accuse others of what they are doing themselves. In recent years, Ive noticed, this insight has become more widespread.

Thus, some of those who accuse Trump of being Hitler side with the Hamas neo-Nazis, or at least seek to compromise Israels ability to defend herself against them.

Moreover, progressives themselves comprise the major American political group most closely approaching fascism. You need only examine the record of the Biden administration to see this: Within the last three and a half years, the administration has relentlessly pursued policies traditionally associated with fascism: efforts to disarm American citizens; perversion of the legal system to attack political enemies; gargantuan interventions into the economy; sweeping presidential mandates issued without regard to Congress or the Constitution; and what one federal judge called arguably . . . the most massive attack against free speech in United States history. For more on this point, see here.

On the state level, Woodrow has been an enthusiastic participant in the Colorado legislatures quasi-fascist thuggery: intrusive regulations, efforts to disarm citizens, and the campaign to convert Colorado from one of Americas freest and most prosperous states into a Third World hellhole. Woodrow himself was a sponsor of the bag lawa measure that appears to have no coherent purpose other than (1) attacking an interest group leftists dont like and (2) making the rest of us suffer.

So progressive charges that conservatives are fascists looks somewhat like the psychological phenomenon of projection. Thus, Woodrow labels Trump as the devil, when by traditional measures his sides social agenda is what looks satanic: abortion so late as to constitute infanticide, child mutilation, attacks on conservative Christians, and (among some of his allies) support for Hamas.

Normal people reacted to the attempted assassination of another human being with sympathy and horror. But, again, this is what Woodrow said: The last thing America needed was sympathy for the devil but here we are.

Can you grasp the lack of human feeling behind such words?

Progressives advertise themselves as opposed to hate. Yet in my experience, some of them are very good haters. Theres a lot of hate in Woodrows post.

They also advertise themselves as caring. But their caring is highly selective: It seems to be limited to interest groups within their own political coalition and on their list of voting dependents. They care deeply for people who pursue outre or destructive lifestyles. But do they care about pious believers like Jack Phillips? Well, not so much.

As their constant efforts to subvert Colorados Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR) demonstrate, they also care very little about those of us who have to pay for their escapades.

These conclusions about caring are not merely impressionistic or anecdotal. Surveys show marked differences in charitable giving among religious conservatives, secular conservatives, religious liberals, and secular liberals. Specifically, they show that religious conservatives are the most generous of the lot, while secular liberals are the least. Their principal medium of caring seems to be buying votes with other peoples money.

Woodrows post reminds us that Colorado has been hijacked by power-grabbers with no affinity for traditional American ideals, or for the Constitution, or for the rule of law, or for the values that shaped the American Westor, in some cases, even for obligations of basic humanity.

It will take a lot of work to reclaim our state. But I am certain we will do so.

Rob Natelson is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver and a former constitutional law professor at the University of Montana. He is the author of The Original Constitution: What It Actually Said and Meant (3rd ed., 2015) and a contributor to the Heritage Foundations Heritage Guide to the Constitution.

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(CNS): Opposition Leader Roy McTaggart is calling on the UPM government to make Caymans high street banks implement a mandatory, modern code of practice, amend the Registered Land Act to enforce mortgage-type security over real estate, and ask CIMA to review the fairness of fees charged and interest rates paid on deposits. After years of low interest rates, banks had increased fees to improve profitability. But with eleven hikes over the last two years, bank profits are soaring while borrowers are struggling.

A private members motion filed by the PPM leader and seconded by his deputy, Joey Hew, notes that the agreement by local banks to give a 30-day notice before increasing mortgage interest rates has expired, though it did nothing to help those with increased payments, putting homes at risk of foreclosure and forcing them to come to government when they cannot afford mortgage payments.

McTaggart said the Law Reform Commission has already initiated a public consultation to consider a new Registered Land (Amendment) Bill, which the government could adopt. The goal is to reform the foreclosure process and to streamline the provision impacting the charge of land to provide for a lending and pre-action protocol to better protect borrowers.

The opposition said they want the government to encourage the Cayman Islands Bankers Association to introduce a voluntary banking code that recognises the need for them to consider cases of financial difficulty sympathetically and positively, exploring options for alternative repayment arrangements for those in financial trouble. If not, the motion calls for government to consider legislation to provide for a mandatory code that will hold the banks accountable and protect their customers, especially those with mortgages.

The PPM members are suggesting that the code should be based on the one rolled out in the UK last year, which imposes a duty on banks to their customers, requiring them to deliver good outcomes and higher standards of consumer protection, including for loan foreclosures.

They have also called on the government to ask CIMA to review and report back to parliament by the end of this calendar year on the fairness of fees charged by retail banks and the fairness of interest rates paid on savings and other deposit accounts, ensuring that these rates and fees are fair and equitable for all customers.

While interest rates have reached the highest levels in decades for borrowers, the interest rate paid to customers with savings accounts or cash on deposit has barely moved from as little as 0.1% in some cases.

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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) uttered the obvious logic that he wanted progressives to hear in case they want to vote against President Joe Biden or not vote at all. (Watch the video below.)

The lawmaker cited apathy and perhaps voters voting against their own self-interest as possible contributors to a Trump victory.

In an interview on Sunday with public affairs expert Mathew Littman for MeidasTouch, Lieu pleaded with unconvinced liberals to look deeply at their self-interests and embrace them. Casting a vote for Trump or any other candidate besides Biden out of disgust, or sitting out the election altogether, is inviting disaster on a volatile scale, Lieu said. That includes a possibly continued right-wing shaping of the Supreme Court.

Littman, a former speechwriter for Biden, noted the prospect of the Justice Department being gutted, opponents of the administration going to jail, and Trumps extreme immigration crackdown if apathy prevails.

Lieu took it from there.

Donald Trump incited an insurrection, an attack on our nations Capitol, he said. A hundred and forty law enforcement officers were assaulted and injured, some critically. And if he becomes president and he feels like he was rewarded for that behavior, what else do you think hes gonna do? He can do quite a bit, because in his mind, he incited insurrection and the American people made him president again. You think theres going to be anything to hold him back? I dont think so.

Low turnout could put Trump over the top, meaning bad news for progressives who voted and for those who stayed home.

Trump has hinted again at the possibility of violence if he loses the vote count.

If everythings honest, Ill gladly accept the results. I dont change on that. If its not, you have to fight for the right of the country, he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this week.

In another suggestion of upheaval if he were to lose, he told Time magazine that there would be no political violence if he wins the November election but if we dont win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election.

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An obvious truth hidden in plain sight is suddenly common knowledge: At 81, Joe Biden is old and losing it.

Apparently we needed an epically disastrous debate performance, an op-ed from George Clooney and Biden mixing up Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with Putin, along with referring to Donald Trump as his Vice President at the NATO summit yesterday, for permission to believe our own eyes.

Ive long had concerns about the presidents fitness to run the country, but the debate at the end of June was even worse than I expected. Of course, his 78-year-old opponent is no spring chicken either, but its no exaggeration to say the contrast between the candidates sharpness was as stark as night and day.

But what was most shocking to me is how many other people were shocked by the performance as if theyre only just now realizing that the president isnt as sharp as he used to be.

I have many friends on the left, and I was floored to see how many of my smart, inquisitive, well-informed peers didnt see Bidens blunders coming. Where have they been burying their heads in the sand?

Since the debate, the Overton window shifted. All of a sudden its okay to point out a very elderly doddering man is in charge of our country.

Multiple New York Times editorials have called on Joe Biden to step down. Democratic members of Congress have demanded the same. Even George Clooney, a long time donor and supporter of Biden, pleaded with the President to step aside in a Wednesday op-ed.

Ill give them credit for finally calling a spade a spade. But the spontaneous narrative shift is eyeroll-inspiring.

So many of us have been calling it like it is for ages including reporters at this very paper who have been pointing out Bidens trail of gaffes for years.But, rather than engage with meaningful concerns about Bidens fitness, many on the left roundly dismissed us.

The deniers claimed we were participating in a right wing smear campaign. Unflattering clips of Biden were shrugged off as politically motivated, plucked out of context, surreptitiously edited, or merely in poor taste.

Its not in bad faith to demand that your president have the mental capacity to lead the free world. Just because a media source you dont like points something out doesnt mean its not true.

Conservatives have voiced concerns about the Presidents advancing age since his last campaign in 2020.

Thats when he asserted that poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. He then inexplicably called a young female voter a lying dog faced pony soldier and also called a retired Iowa farmer who challenged his fitness to run fat and a damn liar.

His presidency, too, has been filled with blunders.

In March 2022, in the early days of the war in Ukraine, he flippantly said Putin cannot remain in power an apparently unauthorized call for a regime change that his panicked staff quickly walked back.

In September of 2022, he looked for a Representative Jackie in a crowd during a speech apparently forgetting her last name, and the fact that she had died a month earlier.

Then, in June 2023, he bafflingly touted plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean.

Biden has even read instructions from teleprompters out loud, throwing end of quote, repeat the line, and pause into his speeches throughout his term.

When he was asked about his mental focus on 60 Minutes in 2022, his response inspired minimal confidence: Oh, its focused. Id say its I think its I I havent look, I have trouble even mentioning, even saying to myself, my own head, the number of years. I no more think of myself as being as old as I am than fly.

The list goes on and on and on.Even after the debate disaster, his attempts at redemption have ended with him putting his foot right back in his mouth.

On July 4th, he told WURD radio station that he is proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first black woman to serve with a black president.

And during a campaign speech he confidently asserted, Im staying in the race. Ill beat Donald Trump. Ill beat him again in 2020.

This is sad. This is uninspiring. I dont want to live in a country ruled by a president in mental decline or his unelected handlers.

Bidens health can longer be ignored, but, thanks to some combination of willful ignorance and gaslighting by the mainstream media, many American have managed to miss whats been right in front of them months and years.

This isnt just vindication for those of us who have been sounding the alarm bells. Its also a reminder to those whove found themselves blindsided to evaluate the evidence, think for themselves, and believe their own eyes.

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MADISON (WKOW) -- The East Side Progressives are hosting a meet-and-greet social event with the candidates for the Dane County executive position on July 13.

"Pie and Politics" will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. at Elvehjem Park, 1202 Painted Post Road. Participants will be served pie and ice cream and have a chance to meet the candidates for the position with Dane County.

"We wanted to host this event because voter education and engagement is a core mission of our neighborhood action team. The presidential race has overshadowed this important race for leadership of Wisconsin's fastest growing county,"Chair of the East Side Progressive Arden Rice said.

The four candidates are State Sen. Melissa Agard, County Board Supervisor Dana Pellebon, Dane County Director of The Tamara Grigsby Office for Equity and Inclusion, Wesley Sparks, and Alder Regina Vidaver.

Each candidate will have 5-10 minutes to speak, followed by questions from the crowd.

"Many of the day-to-day issues that concern residents of Dane County, such as safety, transportation, and conservation of lakes, waterways, andgreen spaces, are local issues that are governed wholly or in part by county government. Through this event we hope to raise the visibility of this important race and remind voters to turn out for the August 13th primary," Rice added.

East Side Progressives strives to be a radically, ethnically, and economically diverse community of people committed to social justice. The three pillars to their work in the community are engagement, outreach and sustainability.

Do you have a breaking news tip to share with 27 News? Email us at news@wkow.com.

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