Posted on 11/07/2012 1:30:44 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free
Republicans are having a bad day. But it’s going to get a lot worse when they look beyond the White House and U.S. Senate and fully absorb what just happened in California. The future of American politics — a majority-minority coalition handing complete political power over all branches of government to Democrats — is written here for anyone to see, in big, bold, rainbow colored letters.
California, reports the San Francisco Chronicle, may have delivered the most unexpected news in a night full of surprises:
California Democrats appear to have picked up a supermajority in both houses of the state Legislature Tuesday night, a surprise outcome that gives the party the ability to unilaterally raise taxes and leaves Republicans essentially irrelevant in Sacramento.
If preliminary results hold, 2012 will mark the first time in 80 years that either political party in California has enjoyed super-majority control. Republicans everywhere should be paying close attention. Because the demographic trends that led to Obama’s reelection — the increasing diversity of the electorate, the relative liberalism of the youth vote, the declining influence of old white males — made their national debut in California in the late 80s and early 90s. The rest of the nation is just catching up.
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The election was not because of a RINo, but it was that we aren’t modern. Today’s GOP is as modern as a Model T. We need to stop focusing on SOCIAL ISSUES and ILLEGALS and return to the big tent...and rebuild the GOP in the Northeast and in Florida and on the WEST COAST!
Your “salvage” idea sounds good. We’re in a southern red state; in fact, a huge chunk of the country is made up of red states. We do need to cooperate and share with each other as much as possible (barter, etc.) Know any websites?
Is “modern” passing laws that legalize, say, a transgendered man using the women’s restroom at a university and exposing himself (under the guise of changing to a “her”) to little girls. Of course, the school is helpless to stop him/her because it’s not PC to ban him/her from the women’s restroom. - Then, there’s the matter of the woman who goes into the military expressly to get herself a “penis” attached through surgery that we have to pay for. - Now, the President can do NOTHING to stop abortion; but never mind common sense. Democrats have screamed “Republican men want to take your precious abortion away from you! . . and the Catholic Church doesn’t want to pay for insurance for your abortion or for Sandra Fluck’s free conraceptives!” - Oh, and yeah, by all means, no country has the right or need to control its borders (except Mexico, of course).
Prop 13 will not be revoked all at once, silly. First they’ll exclude commercial property, that will allow them to pay for another wave of wasteful spending. The money from that will run out in about 5 to 10 years, so then they’ll look at multi-family rental housing which will give them another quick high and then run out in 2 to 5 years. Only then will they slam the coffin lid closed and start piling the dirt on homeowners.
Like the old joke says “ a pig that special, you don’t eat him all at once.”
Well I live in California and can say that I agree with all that you’ve said. There really in no where to run to in the US anymore as they will all soon be like Cali and Illinois, much sooner than people think.
Also, once Cali and other blue states blow up who do you think they’ll be looking to to pay for all the pensions and welfare from those states? Why it’ll be those red states that are still somewhat solvent! It’ll come as a rude surprise to all those Texans pointing and laughing when O comes to them with a gun and his hand out to force you to pay for the blue state follies.
I’d like to bolt from the US as well but looking around can’t quite see any place that looks even remotely stable 10 or 20 years down the line. They all look like s#$% and it’s no fun to be a foreigner when the SHTF in a country not your own.
Good Luck and I wish you well on your journey!
Yeppers. Our economy was circling the drain already. Now it is spinning fast. The dominoes have begun to topple with cities going bankrupt. Stockton, San Bernardino come to mind. Others are close behind. Like Los Angeles and Oakland. I try pointing some of the danger signs out to libs of my acquaintance - mainly teachers and other gvt employees - and get a blank stare. The plan seems to be liquidate all assets and redistribute the take to the unions. They see no further than that.
I have not heard of Prop 13 being revoked, but they can do anything they want now that they have a 2/3rds majority in the house and senate. They can’t change the California Constitution, but they can do anything else. Prop 13 that limited kept property taxes low and prevented large annual increases in property taxes, is just a normal ballot proposition, not a change to the California Constitution. The California House and Senate could overturn it tomorrow if they wanted to and if Jackass Brown would sign it.
Dear California Democrats...and I say this in the heart of the Inland Empire...you broke it, you own it.
Romney was that guy, so why didn’t he win? He loved queers more than Teddy, and cap and trade and abortion your dream candidate.
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