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> California politicians seem to have a lot of good intentions What evidence do you have for this? It seems to me that the intentions of most California politi
by TechBro8615 4y ago
> California politicians seem to have a lot of good intentions
What evidence do you have for this? It seems to me that the intentions of most California politicians are motivated by what causes people to vote for them. But their voters are a mostly captive audience, since they have such little choice in the matter - what are they gonna do, elect a “semi-fascist MAGA Republican?” Of course not!
So California politicians can do whatever they want, because their base will vote for them to beat any Republican. That means they just need to beat opponents from their own party in primaries, where they take positions on issues that are generally far outside of mainstream preferences. They’re optimizing for pleasing the extremists in their party, not for implementing whatever “good intentions” they might claim to have.
- kelp 4y agoYes, the state is basically run by Democrats, but there are clear factions within that. For example the recent special election for California State Assembly 17th district seat (San Francisco) was between Matt Haney and David Campos. Campos is very much in the progressive camp, and doesn't believe in things like "supply and demand". Haney used to be in the progressive camp, but he's the kind of politician that adapts his views to what he thinks will get him elected. So over the past few years he's shifted more towards the moderate camp, and ran on a much more moderate platform. So, what you end up having is a far left group, and then more of a center left. Then at the local level you have stuff like Shasta county almost getting taken over by far right groups: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-12/shasta-county-far-right-candidates-mostly-lose-uprising-continues https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-12/shasta-c...