Quote Originally Posted by Seran View Post
If I'd said it once, I've said it a million times- there is a difference between a politician who nods in support to the spirit of policies to get elected, and there are the politicians who actually write the policies. Newsom is the former, you need only look at his immediately back away from the hundred billion or so cost the reparations committee came up with to see he's a realist. The sort of liberals that ruin the party are the idealists who care nothing for practicality, cost, and who fail to recognize the political capital expended even debating it.

I'm not really surprised about your vote for Trump, it's sort of expected that even between the lesser of two evils, some Republicans still vote Cheeto.
It’s really a shame that California got so screwed up, because it has so many good qualities that I genuinely admire.

The way I see it, the elites in Silicon Valley made an unholy alliance with the poor. The poor are manipulated to vote for policies & tax exemptions that benefit the rich elites, and in return they receive wealth redistribution via taxing the fuck out of the middle class. There is a reason why so many have left that state and their government is on the verge of bankruptcy. What will remain is the few modern nobility vs the poor unwashed masses. Isn’t that wealth gap something you deeply care about?