ISSUE #191: "That's Not Fair!" 4/11/21

"You can never have equal outcomes, but you can have equal opportunity." -- Jamie Dimon

Sadly, Aspen's political chickens have come home to roost. It was only a matter of time. The continual election of woke progressives and socialists with no viable work experience or worldview has finally manifested itself into a fiefdom of idealism, where real-world problems are addressed with BLM marches, cash handouts and sanctuary city policies.

I've recently learned that even the Aspen Music Festival has fallen prey to the "vaccines don't matter" ideology (they're cordoning off spaces on the lawn, OUTSIDE the music tent, lest people sit too closely together).

My sad prediction is that The People's Republic of Aspen will be among the last jurisdictions to reinstate personal responsibility as a guide for regaining lost freedoms in the post-COVID world.

Our elected (and appointed) leaders are simply too addicted to and empowered by the power we so quickly and blindly relinquished to them.

Read my column in yesterday's Aspen Times HERE.