UNMASKED2020: Colorado’s Radical Left Turn and a Warning to America

UNMASKED2020 is a collection of commentaries on the government’s executive and legislative actions during the historic 2020 session of the Colorado General Assembly. The 2019 legislative session had produced much equally radical legislation, like the knee-capping of the oil and gas industry in Senate Bill 181, but the 2020 session was more dramatic and arrogant in the rapid acceleration of Progressives’ radical agenda. This occurred through an unprecedented confluence of events: the arrival in March of the malevolent Wuhan virus and the resulting declaration of a public health emergency by the governor; the cataclysmic economic meltdown stemming from Governor Polis’s shut-down orders in response to the pandemic; the ten-week legislative recess, pushing the normal 120-day session into mid-June; the severe multi-year budget crisis resulting from the Governor’s shutdown orders; and nightly riots on the Capitol grounds, continuing for weeks and affecting the work hours, the safety of legislators and employees, and not-so-subtly influencing the legislative agenda. When reading the contributions offered by the authors, two things need to be kept in mind. First, the book is an anthology: each individual chapter presents the views and judgments of the specific author on the subjects and controversies discussed in that chapter. The fifteen authors do not necessarily agree with all of the views presented by the other contributors. The book is not a policy manifesto, and it does not attempt to cover every aspect of the 2020 session of the legislature. Authors evaluate several major actions which are characteristic of the session and will have serious impacts on Coloradans’ lives and liberties for decades. What the book does attempt to do is sound a wakeup call. By “unmasking” the deeply troublesome radicalism and dishonesty behind a media-driven narrative that misleads the citizenry, the authors hope to interrupt and help reverse Colorado’s downhill rush to a California-style apocalypse. Time is short to halt Colorado’s slide into a civic chaos where the “Rule of Law” is no longer respected.