The Worst DO Get on Top

The closing statements from the final senate vote last Friday for SB25-003, the Progressive Colonists’ landmark final attempt to shove a modified “assault weapons” ban.

Sullivan, with his lobby money, as always, dances on the grave of his late son, one of the victims of the 2012 Aurora Theater shooting hyper-focusing on the “assault weapon” with the drum magazine.

He neglects that weapon, one of three firearms total (another being a 12 gauge shotgun) jammed early on in the shooting or that the shooter also employed flash grenades and smoke bombs and is rumored to have chosen that specific theater due to their gun-free policy. Weapon jams are common when using large capacity magazines due to greater the tension on the spring which increases the risk of a double feed. Investigators at the Aurora shooting discovered numerous unspent rounds at the scene likely due to the shooter attempting to clear such malfunctions.

Or that the total rate of fire per minute of the shooter equated to roughly thirteen rounds per minute - a rate of fire easily for someone with far less assaulty and scary looking wEaPoNs oF wAR to achieve.

Or that high capacity magazine capacity bans do little to nothing to deter evil killers who will either skirt such ineffective bans such as going into any sporting goods store in adjacent state or find alternative ways to bid their evil.

Then there’s “Senadora” Gonzalez as she likes to be called, and in insult to Latina women, who reflects on the lack of rights for minority groups in the nation’s past and that she is (although she probably can’t define the term), a woman. She may have been probably too busy playing with her phone or tablet¹ to pay attention to the actual diverse group of people² in principled opposition to the bill, and the fact that gun control is and will always be rooted in racism and disarming other marginalized groups.

“Senadora” further shows she’s basking in glee of a recent drama between “no-compromise” Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and Representative Ryan Armagost. Armagost unfortunately believed the progressive colonizer’s Jussie Smolett-eqsue story which alleges RMGO’s door knockers harassed certain lawmakers at their homes of which strangely enough zero video evidence has emerged of such events. RMGO asserts Armagost’s claims are bogus and that sold himself out to the Democrats.

An entire series of posts could be made about Colorado’s esteemed Colonial Progressive class who currently dominate the bowels of the Gold Dome, or the vast NGO industrial complex.

And a separate series of posts would reiterate the points made by

J.D. Haltigan

,

Harrison Koehli

, and

Josh Slocum

over the histrionic performative Cluster B vomit parasitizing our society today, and that Senator Tom Sullivan (NY) and “Senadora” Julie Gonzales (AZ) are direct spawn of this phenomenon.

But the point here, as emphasized by F.A Hayek in his flagship work Road to Serfdom is that the worst get on top.

In the chapter "Why the Worst Get on Top" from The Road to Serfdom, Hayek argues that systems with centralized control elevate leaders who excel at manipulation over those who serve the public good.

Colorado’s Progressive Colonists embody this troubling dynamic. Through undemocratic appointments, personality disordered “leaders”, secretive legislation, and the imposition of urban-centric policies, these “leaders” reflect Hayek’s warning that the worst rise by navigating power structures rather than upholding democratic principles.

The evidence is stark. Senator Jaquez-Lewis’s (NC) resignation and her Party-appointed replacement did as Hayek would have argued, prioritized loyalty over merit.

Or how urban elite Progressive Colonists impose climate and equity policies on rural and Indigenous communities, eroding local autonomy in a way that echoes Hayek’s fears of centralized overreach.

Or the secretive amendments to gun control bill SB25-003, pushed through without public testimony, with inaccurate fiscal notes and a shell game financing scheme further illustrate manipulative tactics that prioritize power over transparency.

Or how the state is in a massive budget crisis yet still has the money to woo a film festival catered to the Luxury Belief class.

Finally, the giant elephant in the room, the money and power behind the "Gang of Four," their NGO-industrial complex, bootlicking regime media, and the $62 million in union cartel spending which shifted the state’s politics, rewarding strategic system navigation over grassroots support.

While what’s left of Colorado’s democracy differs from Hayek’s totalitarian examples (for now) but these patterns—party control, top-down imposition, and financial influence point to a slide toward the dynamics he critiqued. The Progressive Colonists may not be dictators yet³), but their methods align with Hayek’s thesis: the worst do get on top when power trumps principle.

1. https://x.com/scottpshamblin/status/1904614640354811986

https://x.com/scottpshamblin/status/1904629959219441948

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3. “No doubt an American or English ‘fascist’ system would greatly differ from the Italian or German models; no doubt, if the transition were effected without violence, we might expect to get a better type of leader. Yet this does not mean that our fascist system would in the end prove very different or much less intolerable than its prototypes. There are strong reasons for believing that the worst features of the totalitarian systems are phenomena which totalitarianism is certain sooner or later to produce.” -Hayek in Road to Serfdom.