So you support this nonsense?
Good call. That is precisely what it is. And it really does not deserve all the heraldry...pro or con.
Our state of affairs in California is utterly deplorable.
And its vexing to merely have to read or hear about it much less have "freelancers" whip themselves into frenzies over the minutae.
It's tempting to occasionally tweak these old timers who feel somehow superior to everyone and everything. They get so puffed up in their fantasies of self-importance.
Their absence of a sense of humor precludes them from taking jibes in stride or with equanimity. The old "Pride that goeth before the Fall" thing.