I miss the old California, the land of promise and gold. Where people went for opportunity. When Reagan was Governor.
Prop 32 just might eke it out. (At the polls. There are plenty of liberal judges who’d set it aside even then, of course.)
Unlike most measures, the left is split on 32:
the power goons who want unions for the unions’ sake oppose it. That’s most of the left, of course ...
BUT the reform-minded left — the sort who produced Waiting For Superman, who know that union inflexibility is a big part of the state’s problem — are supporting 32.
In California the voters have lost the vote, have lost democracy, have lost any role in government.
We go through the steps, we vote in laws, we change laws, we remove laws, and it is all meaningless, because a democrat in a robe simply watches us go through what amounts to mock democracy and then steps in when it is over and says, nope, not on my watch.
Propositions in California (and most other states) have become a joke, especially if they are right leaning.
It doesn’t matter what the voters say - it’s what one or two liberal judges say.
The voters have actually passed some rather conservative laws (no benefits for illegals, no same sex marriage, etc) only to be aborted by a few judges.
Just like at the federal government, the elites have become the rulers.