I just don’t agree with you. I’m in some fancy suburbs in the Northeast and parents really do care about CRT and the sexuality indoctrination reaching down to the kindergarten level.
Sure, CA has made looting and the homeless big issues, but those are social issues. You sound like the classic out of touch RINO. “Budgets” are not what get people to the polls or onto the GOP side.
Maybe in the Northeast those are important issues. And of course to some people in this state.
The ones who care one way or the other strongly are already going to vote the way they will.
The people who don’t think that 8 year-olds today should know in full detail what the life of an 8 year old was under slavery, in the Japanese internment camps, or at Bergen-Belson vote, and there are a few thankfully genuinely conservative areas like Shasta, but my observation is that a snarled freeway, a grounded fire tanker, a bum pooping in the street or an oil spill matters to many more people, particularly in the areas that are in play. I could easily be wrong (the day I can be sure I’m right 51 percent of the time is the day I go to Vegas and make a few million).
Elections, in my observation, are all about pocketbook issues, crime, wildfires, and infrastructure.