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It's proved rather difficult to rally the public to fight against this - and I've been trying to do it for 2 years. That experience has led me to conclude we need an animating vision to pull such a movement together.
Of course, we also need money. Lots of it. And it's just not there, at least not right now. Perhaps a clear agenda and vision can produce that too. And the world will live as one
And got nowhere.
A combination of the agricultural, banking, real estate, and automotive industries have been in control of California since ... well ... forever. Allied with the GOP they have stymied taxation of the income producers: agriculture, banking, real estate, & etc. by foisting the ever increasing tax burden on individuals. They then 'flipped' the debate by forbidding any increase in taxation on anybody which starved necessary infrastructure and other Public Works.
Almost simultaneously the damn fools passed Term Limits which shifted political power from elected officials to political insiders, of various sorts, which has resulted in political power being concentrated in people that do not, are not, and cannot be held publicly accountable.
Thus real political power in California is essential private. Thus elections are essentially meaningless. She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Your assessment of the political landscape in CA is quite accurate. And as you note, they've rigged the system so that it is virtually impossible to change it. They've effectively destroyed democracy in California. And the world will live as one
California politics makes me think of 10,000,000 people standing around throwing hammers in air and then observing, "Gosh. It's raining hammers." She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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