Our Platform for Outlining Colorado’s Future

Reasons to Agree : We just want to create a good place for our people to live. America should focus on internal prosperity rather than expanding its global influence. Empires historically collapse due to overreach. Rome, Britain, and the Soviet Union all fell when they stretched too far. Military expansion is financially unsustainable. Global military bases and interventions cost trillions of dollars, money that could be used for healthcare, education, and infrastructure. Republican values oppose imperialism. The U.S. was founded on self-governance and democracy, not ruling over other nations. Empire-building creates unnecessary enemies. Intervening in other countries often leads to backlash and long-term instability. Reasons to Disagree : A strong global presence ensures national security. The U.S. deters threats by maintaining military bases and alliances worldwide. Economic dominance benefits Americans. U.S. influence in global trade and financial systems helps maintain...

The numbering system below describes a system that scores groups of people within a range of 1 to 10 by how much they value equality. These people undervalue equality. People who value equality at a 1, do not value equality very much. These people are willing to accept inhuman, or even unnatural cruelty to others, or specific groups of people. They do not value all life equally. People from their group (family, race, nationality) are acceptable, however they give little or no concern to those from other groups, or actively seek to harm those from other groups.                   These people over value equality. Someone who overvalues an otherwise positive value like equality would be willing to sacrifice other good values in order to satisfy equality. These people not only are willing to steel from Peter to give to Paul, but are willing to trample all over such concepts as "freedom of choice", the "law of the harvest", justice, or reason...