If California is crazy, the rest of the country is nuts..this was a much deserved loss for the democratic party as much as a victory for the hollywood bicep with a bankroll...the party leaders are still in denial, talking about right wing conspiracy - yeah, millions of co-conspirators, half of them union members and a third of them latinos, rushing to the polls to vote out the governor and vote in the actor -and spreading ridiculous stories about the israel-loving Hollywood meathead's alleged hitler sympathies...in this, what passes for a liberal left was as gullible, narrow minded, even stupid, and far more gutless, than many on the right...
the democrats employed every party name they could find to make ridiculous recorded phone calls to get out the fear vote...I half expected them to dig up tapes of hubert humphrey to speak from the grave..they spent even more millions than the other wing of the ruling party, in order to convince voters who despised davis that they really should love him because the actor would...what? some of these fools are cringing in their suburban bunkers now that the dreaded sex-fiend-nazi has won, expecting storm troopers to attack at any moment, and take away their stocks , bonds and other tokens of their ideological enlightenment...
not crazy, but another disgusting example of what happens when people justifiably fed up with a political professional class are offered nothing but a different bunch of rich rulers...the barely existing left was mostly swept up in the near hysterical frenzy to stop the actor and "save" the wretched governor, while the right voted - at four to five times the rate of the left - for their candidate, Mcclintock...a sad "failure of the will" on the part of people who are courageous in rhetoric only...if this were cuba, the batista regime would still be in power...
the biggest defeat may be for democratic party union leadership, spending twelve million bucks of its members' dues to defend a party that nearly fifty percent of those members voted against...when there is no left speaking to or for them, people vote for the right, even though many of them have no allegiance to it, as evidenced by the heavy vote against prop 54...the democrats are driving voters to the republicans; given no choice but lesser evils, it's merely a matter of which evil seems lesser...
crazy? more like stupid, but that's the democratic leadership, not the voters...what the hell are they supposed to do when a brilliant candidate like Camejo is deserted by "wefties" because he "can't win", while an affable schmuck like mcclintock gets four times his vote, from people who have the courage of their convictions and truly believe, as an old socialist once said, that it is better to vote for what you want and not get it, than to vote for what you don't want and get it...
we deserve much better, but we'll never get it until elitist disrespect for people , which is the backbone of liberal politics - and unfortunately, quite a bit of what passes for left thinking, often expressed here - is retired in favor of a politics not simply born of wealth and professionalism, but coming closer to the realities of the almost mythological - in the minds of many progressives - and lip-serviced working majority, becomes something closer to caring about the people of the nation, and not just one state or one class of its inhabitants...
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