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This is not limited to California, it happens in virtually every state with majority rule, left or right.
by prpl 3y ago
This is not limited to California, it happens in virtually every state with majority rule, left or right.
- tivert 3y ago> This is not limited to California, it happens in virtually every state with majority rule, left or right. Did you mean majority rule or did you actually mean one-party rule? Because California is a one-party rule state, and the mindset you're talking about seems to better fit for the situation where the politicians are unreasonably secure in their jobs/power.
- asveikau 3y agoI feel like you guys must not follow politics. Bipartisanship is pretty much dead everywhere. Majority rule is one party rule, even for very slim majorities. Nobody crosses the aisle anymore. When we have a bicameral party split, or executive split with legislature, as we currently see federally on both counts, very little gets done.
- prpl 3y agoBoth probably. I’ve lived in Utah and California (among other states) and I would characterize both as having the majority of their politicians unreasonably secure in their jobs and power. In Utah, most of the politicians were more at risk of losing your seat due to a primary challenge from someone further right than you than general election. In California they have at least fixed that a bit with open primaries, so at least the moderate people can make it to the general election. In both states, at least, the governors tend to be slightly more moderate than the rest of the politicians. It is possibly true that the unreasonably secure don’t make up more than 50% of the votes, I’m not sure.
- r00fus 3y agoLOL, the CA Democratic Party is by no means a monolith. There are leftist and centrists, and some good bills die because the centrists + GOP have enough votes to kill them.