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California politicians need to break away from the hold of the progressive left. All I see in the bay area are politicians arguing over who is more progressive
by skrbjc 5y ago
California politicians need to break away from the hold of the progressive left. All I see in the bay area are politicians arguing over who is more progressive rather than anyone actually suggesting how they will practically and concretely solve the problems that are so obviously in front of us. But even just acknowledging that there is a problem seems to be impossible for any politicians here. Without any actual challenge from the right, politicians will just keep moving to the left, even when that doesn't really mean anything other than how you virtue signal to certain causes.
Just because you don't kowtow to the woke ideology, doesn't mean you can't be on the left and push for improving your state and locality in a practical way and until we get some politicians that actually stand up and say we're going to actually fix some of this, then we aren't going to have any meaningful improvements.
- jollybean 5y agoYes, that's becoming clear, but it's only one of many issues. And FYI 'the right' has been equally compromised by a populist fringe that has no interest in legitimacy either. I grew up in Mississauga, ON, Canada, somehow the city was able to integrate people from anywhere on the planet, give them a sound place to live, some kind of job, low crime, safety, healthcare etc.. It's not the most glorious place, and I have no reason to ever want to live there, but for 95% of the people who ever did live there, they came from utter dysfunction (i.e. cold war E. Europe and later E/S Asia) - and 'it works'. It's the 'opposite' of California in that it's utterly a un-aspirational place, but people have jobs, homes, food, education, healthcare, dignity etc.. The city has the same mayor for like 30 years, ruthlessly pragmatic. Kind of everyone's gradma. Nobody would mess with her or bother trying to run against her. California needs a Hazel McCallion [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_McCallion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_McCallion
- Jensson 5y agoCalifornia doesn't have problems with their Russian and Asian immigrants either. The amount of problems areas have with immigration very strongly depends on the education level of those immigrants, Canada mostly takes in highly educated people so doesn't face many issues, California on the other hand have over 2 million undocumented immigrants who are significantly less educated than the average immigrant in Canada.