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That’s why it amuses me whenever people point to this area as some bastion of leftist politics. This place has a decidedly libertarian tilt: socially permissive
by sidlls 7y ago
That’s why it amuses me whenever people point to this area as some bastion of leftist politics. This place has a decidedly libertarian tilt: socially permissive and very much laissez fair in many if not most ways.
- eli_gottlieb 7y agoThere's a reason that "Fuck you, got mine"/"socially liberal, fiscally conservative" was named "the California Ideology", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology.
- manigandham 7y agoThat's outdated. California hasn't been fiscally conservative for over a decade.
- eli_gottlieb 7y agoCall me when they repeal Prop 13.
- sidlls 7y agoCalifornia is most definitely fiscally conservative. Taxes, and regulatory enforcement of leftish causes with real teeth are an uphill battle even with huge Democratic majorities, mainly because Democrats are basically a right-of-center party. America doesn’t have a left wing in its political landscape, at least not one with any representation or power. Sanders might change that, but I doubt it.
- manigandham 7y agoCalifornia has the highest taxes of any state, and they keep getting higher. Citizens are taxed for everything while illegal immigrants get free driver licenses and health insurance. If you call that fiscally conservative then your political spectrum is completely off.
- wbl 7y agoLibertarians who want to control what you build.