Posted on 08/24/2021 11:24:51 PM PDT by RandFan
The very idea of a recall vote seemed absurd at first in California, this bluest of US states. Yet Californians’ surprisingly strong support for the removal of Democratic governor Gavin Newsom has resulted in precisely that, with the vote scheduled for 14 September. This reflects a stunning rejection of modern progressivism in a state thought to epitomise its promise.
Some, like the University of California’s Laura Tyson and former Newsom adviser Lenny Mendonca, may see California as creating ‘the way forward’ for a more enlightened ‘market capitalism’, but that reality is hard to see on the ground. Even before the pandemic, California already had the highest poverty rate and the widest gap between middle and upper-middle income earners of any state in the US. It now suffers from the second-highest unemployment rate in the US after Nevada.
Today, class drives Californian politics, and Newsom is peculiarly ill-suited to deal with it. He is financed by what the Los Angeles Times describes as ‘a coterie of San Francisco’s wealthiest families’. Newsom’s backers have aided his business ventures and helped him live in luxury – first in his native Marin, where he just sold his estate for over $6million, and now in Sacramento.
California’s well-connected rich are predictably rallying to Newsom’s side. At least 19 billionaires, mainly from the tech sector, have contributed to his extraordinarily well-funded recall campaign, which is outspending the opposition by roughly nine to one.
Newsom insists California is ‘doing pretty damn well’, citing record profits in Silicon Valley from both the major tech firms and a host of IPOs. He seems to be unaware that California’s middle- and working-class incomes have been heading downwards for a decade, while only the top five per cent of taxpayers have done well....
(Excerpt) Read more at spiked-online.com ...
Progressives = snot-sucking toddlers who only want to play all day in the sandbox while soiling their diapers... Then they pass laws to make someone else change their diapers, buy them new ones and build a bigger sandbox.
Now governor Brown is inviting the progressives up to Oregon and they are destroying Oregon.
ALL blue state governors need to be RECALLED.
They are destroyers taking bribes from the swamp!
We were only short by 1% in getting a recall.
Time to start petition to recall Brown
She’s as worthless as tits on a boar!
And “progressives” have moved their virus to the entire country. By the way, the useful idiot general democrat taliban party voter is 100% responsible for the destruction.
I suggest we treat all democrat taliban voters appropriately.
Borders open for business. By the end of the year we will have let in over 2 million illegals. Each one gets to bring in their extended family. It is estimated that that is about 10-12 each. The means from the 2 million PLUS the 20 million family members that is 22 million illegals here in a year. Great job Joe. Invite them to YOUR house.
“ Perhaps the best illustration of discontent has been the massive domestic outmigration. Since 2000, the state has lost nearly 2.7million net domestic migrants, a population larger than that of the cities of San Francisco, San Diego and Anaheim combined. Even before the pandemic, according to the Edelman survey, roughly half of Californians were considering an exit.”
Mrs. F and I finally left this year after 35 years there.
Uhaul cancelled our reservation because they couldn’t supply a truck — too many one-way outbound from CA. Penske delivered, tho.
Again? Why can’t they just give it a break?
They move to other states like Arizona and Colorado and ruin them too progressives are just leaches on society
My sister lives in a senior community in Gilbert AZ. She says the most common status of residents is “former Californian”. The sell their Cal home, reap the capital gain, and buy for much less in AZ.
The stench from CA is ruining the USA.
Progressivism has destroyed everything it has touched since the days of FDR and the New (Raw) Deal.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Its so bad in most parts of Cali that a WHO human rights guy was horrified by this Zimbabwe by the Sea
progressives, destroying Washington state since 1974
It is not ruined for the millions of people who have government jobs and for those who get free stuff.
Name something the progressives haven’t ruined.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.