Estes Park grows more sheeplike everyday

The growing desire of our aging Estes Park population to yield all decision-making control to our local government and town staff becomes more apparent with every election. Estes Park has one of the highest sales tax rates on foods and other essentials in the state of Colorado, it is such a pleasure to travel to other communities where food items are not subject to sales tax. But whatever, once you vote something in as promise it is "temporary", it becomes easier and easire to make it permanent, because Estes Park residents are less educated and more subservient than their coevals in surrounding communities. There was a glimmer of hope in the most recent phone poll of 200 residents (4% margin of error) in that, despite the overwhelming campaign mounted against the town citizens by the contractors, realtors, and trustees as far as who belongs atop the pyramid, the current percentage of shooting the citizen-driven ordinance into space is less dire than some might have predicted. I find it so amusing that when the town was pushing the historic neighborhoods designation proposal down our throats, 75% approval by everyone in the neighborhood or, later, 100% approval by everyone in the neighborhood to gain this historic designation was not subject to the kind of handwringing and "straw-manism" that 60% approval for zoning changes is now generating. If two people own a property, then the numerator and denominator (the numbers above and below the fraction bar) to calculate the 60% "pass rate" increase by 1. If some Texas trust owns a property, then they are subject to the same rules (including those related to mathematics and physics, unless they are moving near the speed of light) as any trust behaving as an owner. You would think the realtors in town can't work with and numbers or fractions besides 6% (oops, sorry, realtors, looks like the Supreme Court doesn't like your percentages either).

I think when certain groups in town cry out about their ox being gored, we ought to make sure it's an ox rather than a "Night of the Living Dead" zombie. The same people signing on to having 7 people make their decisions for them are the same people who would have denied minorities the vote prior to the Civl Rights Act. We shouldn't be elevating them or lending their "white superiority" beliefs any credence. But what are you going to do? Most of the retirees here don't know how to fill out a ballot yes or no without inviting a neighbor or golf buddy or Rotary Club table mate in for a bottle of wine and handing them an ink pen.