The governor encouraged Coloradans to follow the controversial online personalities, saying they do “actual thinking.”
Someone from Governor Jared Polis’s team should seriously revoke his social media privileges.
It was just one year ago that the Democratic governor of Colorado inspired statewide outrage for posting a celebration of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s appointment to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services — mere months after Polis himself said the famous anti-vaxer would bring back measles and polio.
Now, Polis is back with an even stranger endorsement. In an X post on December 7, the governor encouraged his constituents to follow Richard Hanania and Nicholas Decker on social media.
Hanania spent years writing for white supremacist publications, expressing support for eugenics and opposition against “race-mixing.” Decker has posted frequently in defense of various sex crimes, including consuming AI-generated child pornography and having sexual relations with minors and animals.
Polis lauded Hanania and Decker as “intellectuals” who “are doing actual thinking which is rare these days,” though he noted that his promotion of the men “doesn’t mean I agree with them most or all of the time.”
The governor’s team doubled down on that last part when Westword asked Polis to clarify his endorsement of the men. Westword’s inquiry included an article from The Atlantic detailing Hanania’s ties to white supremacist ideology.
“The Governor was clear in his post that he doesn’t agree with the majority of what these individuals believe and he is always open to hearing differing viewpoints,” says Shelby Wieman, a spokesperson for Polis. “His focus remains on leading for Colorado, and that includes listening to opposing perspectives and finding ways to disagree better no matter where they land in the depths of social media.”
Sing it, sister.
Edit: also I’d love to hear the mental gymnastics from your downvoters on why “we should support these racist child molesters because we shouldn’t let perfect be the enemy of good” and that the alternative is so much worse - like Trump the racist child molester.
Well, the lesser evil is still better than the other. I just maintain voters need to keep pressure on the Democrats because, in my view, fixing the Democrats is the fastest way out of the currently shitty state of things.
The lesser evil is still evil. People seem primed to believe that there couldn’t possibly be any other choice than to elect evil people and that is where the problem lies.
The “greater” and “lesser” evil are just further mental gymnastic designations to justify supporting the candidates and policies that are destroying this nation. The “lesser evil” voter makes this designation so that they can still feel good about their choice despite acknowledging that they’re choosing evil.
It’s not mental gymnastics, it’s a recognition of reality. Kamala Harris was a lesser evil. Would she have even tried to do half the things I, as a leftist, think she should have? No. But her being president would have saved tens of thousands from being deported and millions from living in constant fear. That difference matters.
Fewer people are being deported now than during Biden’s term (to the ire of Trump) so what are you basing this belief of her hypothetical actions on? Harris herself stated that she wanted to crack down on asylum seekers, increase the number of border patrol agents, and even warned migrants “not to come” to America while visiting Guatemala during her campaign.
You’re ignoring reality in favor of an idealized image of what you think a Democrat would do. Even now, Democrats are helping Trump’s agenda at every turn and yet you think they’re our saviors despite the fact that they never follow through with any of their promises. It’s quite ridiculous.
What separates you from a Republican who voted for Trump even though they “don’t agree with everything he does?” That person sees Democrats in the same way you see Republicans, so what differentiates you? You all want things to be exactly as they are now as demonstrated by your unwillingness to change anything, and you are all responsible for it. Keep voting for evil and evil is what you get.
Source: trust me bro?
Meanwhile, in the real world, Trump is on his way to deporting long time residents at twice the rate of Biden. That’s to say nothing of the aforementioned climate of fear causing people to flee the country, which is harder to quantify.
Keep on convincing yourself it’s better to do nothing that to reduce harm. The greater of two evils will probably never get to you, so you can keep on voting self-righteously without a care for actual consequences.
Cool, cool, cool, so u got any answers or u just here to start shit?