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Yes, that has been clear for a long time, about as long as CA has been a one-party state. The real question is why you supposedly smart Californians keep on fal

Yes, that has been clear for a long time, about as long as CA has been a one-party state. The real question is why you supposedly smart Californians keep on falling for the... same... old... lie... every... damn... time. It is not as if the pie-in-the-sky people haven't promised a chicken in every pot and a cow in every shed and a car on every driveway - replace these with whatever modern equivalents you like - a thousand times before without delivering even a single chick, calf or push bike. Why do you keep on falling for the same old tired this-time-it-will-work lies? This is not limited to CA and might even become more prevalent in NY now that the DSA has seriously started to hollow out the remains of what used to be the Democratic party but it has been going on for much longer in the formerly Golden, now somehow tarnished state. Why? California Dreaming used to be a thing, not a nightmare.

croisillon 4mo ago
calling California a one-party-state is a bit exagerated: even the Democrats have had a governor from time to time too, in the past 100 (or the past 60, or the past 40) years
- xp84 3mo ago
  I don't understand what you're trying to say. The stats don't lie: https://ballotpedia.org/Party_control_of_California_state_government https://ballotpedia.org/Party_control_of_California_state_go... And the only bit of "red" on that diagram besides the blip in 96 in the Assembly, was Schwarzenegger, who was quite a moderate figure, and given his party didn't control the legislature at all, he didn't make a tremendous or long-lasting impact besides a few budget showdowns.
  - croisillon 3mo ago
    but apart from 10 years Warren, 6 years Knight, 8 years Reagan, 8 years Deukmejian, 8 years Wilson, 8 years Schwarzenegger, when did Republicans ever win any election in California?
albedoa 4mo ago
Whoops, looks like my insight about you was entirely accurate how can that be: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643270
- hagbard_c 4mo ago
  Explain how 'your insight' into me is 'entirely accurate' in reference to my posting of another person who claimed to have insight into other people who happened to disagree with whatever was posted on this site. Before you do that I'd follow the advice I gave in that post: take a mirror and have a good look at it. What you see is what you get.

croisillon 4mo ago

calling California a one-party-state is a bit exagerated: even the Democrats have had a governor from time to time too, in the past 100 (or the past 60, or the past 40) years

xp84 3mo ago
I don't understand what you're trying to say. The stats don't lie: https://ballotpedia.org/Party_control_of_California_state_government https://ballotpedia.org/Party_control_of_California_state_go... And the only bit of "red" on that diagram besides the blip in 96 in the Assembly, was Schwarzenegger, who was quite a moderate figure, and given his party didn't control the legislature at all, he didn't make a tremendous or long-lasting impact besides a few budget showdowns.
- croisillon 3mo ago
  but apart from 10 years Warren, 6 years Knight, 8 years Reagan, 8 years Deukmejian, 8 years Wilson, 8 years Schwarzenegger, when did Republicans ever win any election in California?

albedoa 4mo ago

Whoops, looks like my insight about you was entirely accurate how can that be: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643270

hagbard_c 4mo ago
Explain how 'your insight' into me is 'entirely accurate' in reference to my posting of another person who claimed to have insight into other people who happened to disagree with whatever was posted on this site. Before you do that I'd follow the advice I gave in that post: take a mirror and have a good look at it. What you see is what you get.