"If those lousy liberals weren't raisin' our taxes, we wouldn't be in this mess" is no better an argument than "If those meanie conservatives weren't cuttin' ou

"If those lousy liberals weren't raisin' our taxes, we wouldn't be in this mess" is no better an argument than "If those meanie conservatives weren't cuttin' our social nets, we wouldn't be in this mess." They're both facile stereotyping. Would you like to present a coherent argument for how you think the Bay Area would have followed a wildly better trajectory in the last decade if Republicans had been in charge? I'm going to go out on a limb and say they would not have raised the minimum wage faster, or advocated more strongly for rent control, or pushed stricter business regulations on giant tech firms in order to protect small businesses, or advocated for strengthening labor unions for low-wage workers, or been better at confronting the moneyed NIMBY interests that make constructing housing so difficult in some areas, or looked at reforming Proposition 13. So what would it have been? There basically aren't any Republicans left in the State Other than the third of Californians who voted for the Republican or Libertarian candidates in the 2016 election, sure. Unless you're suggesting they all left in the last two years.