Democrats know what they believe. They just can't be honest about it.
,They believe in perpetually having their hands in all our back pockets. Then growing government dependency, until it reaches a self-perpetuating, critical mass that ensures total power forever.
Try putting that on a ballot. Though NYC mayor's race is as close as this comes to Democrats being honest about their real agenda.
It is our job now, to put their real agenda out there - with names, dates and facts. Debunk their smoke-screens, then nail the facts down.
We are starting this process right here and right now, as readership of the SB Current site grows. And people don't feel they are so alone in this town, that actually did vote over 30% for Trump, rejection of the Democrat agenda, and for exactly the change we are now seeing.
It already begins: Rep Kevin Kiley (R) points out the tricks already getting played. He is a primary target of Newsom's re-districting scam which eliminates his district and puts him in a Democrat majority district :
"Newsom has set a "Special Election" for his Redistricting Sham: November 4. He also just released a poll suggesting 57% of voters are for it. But a Politico poll shows 64% against it. The difference is fraud.
****Newsom has twisted the ballot language to make “Yes” look like “No.”****"
Democrat voters will vote for ANY person, the more brain dead and corrupt the better, and they all vote in a block. That is the danger. Republicans vote for character and accomplishments and thus often are split on who to support. Democrats do not care about character or accomplishment's, only that they win, and they will vote as a block even while holding their nose over their own candidate. Republicans will lose unless we do two things. 1) Eliminate RINO's from our ranks who make it appear that we won an election only to find RINO's are stopping us more than Democrats, and 2) Learn to stick together and vote as a block like Democrats. Otherwise in 3 years we will be right back where we started, or worse.
There are 10,367,321 registered voters in California. The Democratic Party has 45.27% of them tied up. There are 2,381,000 union members in California. The Democratic Part has 59% of them according to Pew Research. The registered Democrats are fiercely loyal and do not regard the Republicans have anything to offer them. The Democratic Party Politicians and the Unions are hand-in-glove with mutual contributions. The Republican Party is not a serious competitor with only 24.5% of registered voters. These numbers won't change much, until the Republican Party gets new leadership and recruits new members.
Missing are the Independents who now, plus GOP numbers, have reached parity with Democrat registrations. What bridges can be built between GOP and the Independents?
Independents made their first moves away from the current very weak Democrat majority - Independents refused to register as Democrats . We need to learn why.
I’ll tell ya what to take away from all this Henry - how crafty _and successful_ the Democrats really are! We float along on a high cloud while they lie, cheat, steal, and . . . get all the marbles! They realize the average chump on the street doesn’t have sense enough to come in out of the rain, let alone ponder what’s fair and right, so while we’re acting like boy scouts at a knife fight, they play dirty and walk off with the trophy.
Screw that - we Republicans need to get mean. We need to get loud. We need to throw elbows, and shove our way back to the front. CA politics isn’t a Sunday picnic — it’s a back-alley brawl, and the meanest fighters walk away with the purse.
We’ve got two choices: keep drifting along in la-la land and watch them strip us blind, or grit our teeth, and fight like Democrats!
Never underestimate the power Democrats in this state have over astro-turfing all their government employees to show up, and cheer every move that keeps Democrats in full control.
These are not real rank and file state residents, they are not real independent voters, they are not even "working families". They are taxpayer funded two-fers. The majority will be Democrats, mostly self-interested government employees, and more likely than not government employee union members.
Starting about 20 years ago, Democrats crammed down "election reform". Only in retrospect, did every element of that "election reform" work only in their own favor. They had a head start. They knew what they were doing. Many of us at the time, did not.
How many of these election reform measures sounded like good idea at the time? Term limits; jungle primaries; same day registration; automatic DMV voter registration; cross-over primary voting; universal mail in balloting; ballot harvesting; long delayed counting grace period for mail in ballots.........
Once they got their "election reform" package passed, they immediately dug in, changed the rules and we ended up in this current Democrat supermajority state, even worse than when Willie Brown was running the show. That is how it happened.
That is your starting date--Nov 2005 - track all the "election reform" measures Democrats were able to pass that have now permanently skewed all future elections in this state in their favor.
We got caught flat-footed. Without breaking up the current Democrat super-majority that almost instantly evolved from "election reform" in Sacramento, there is no hope. Yet we continue to send our own mini-Democrat super majority (Monique Limon and Gregg Hart) to ensure Democrats state wide to keep doing this to us.
When did the California Democrat party first go to the mattresses and use every tool at their disposal to never be threatened ever again? November 2005
Democrat's existential frog brain was threatened after the Gov Gray Davis recall. The teachers unions in particular mounted a massive PR offensive, that even got the reform-minded governor eventually to come over to their side. California has never been the same since.
"...ABSTRACT: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called a special election in November 2005. There were eight citizen initiatives on the ballot, including four reform measures endorsed by the governor, and all eight measures were defeated. ......
NB: What were those four ballot reform measures and what shape would the state be in today, if they had passed? Teacher tenure was one of them as Californians saw their once exceptional public education system falter and fail every year.
Gov Schwarzenegger's four ballot reform measures out of eight other measures on the same ballot "Voters" rejected in 2005 - which party and their members had the most at stake defeating them?
2005 election reform measures - all defeated by "voters". The sleeping giant, the government employee unions, had been awakened
---1. Proposition 74 EDUCATION Extends the probationary period for newly hired teachers from two consecutive school years to five and changes the process for dismissing permanent teachers who had received two unsatisfactory performance evaluations
Defeated
(**Teachers unions benefited by defeat)
---2. Proposition 75 PAYCHECK PROTECTION Requires obtaining written consent from employees before using union dues for political contributions
Defeated
(**SEIU and the teachers unions benefits by defeat)
---3. Proposition 76 SPENDING CAPS Limits state spending to the prior year's level plus three previous years’ average revenue growth; changes state minimum funding for schools; enacts other budgetary changes
Defeated
(**SEIU and the teachers unions benefited by defeat)
---4. Proposition 77 REDISTRICTING Changes the redistricting process for legislative and congressional districts from the state legislature to a panel of three retired justices
HOPEFULLY, the lawsuit filed will SMACK down this "proposed election". I won't hold my breath but I'm glad some are fighting back!
The problem that the Democrat Party has is that it does not know what it believes.
Berney
Democrats know what they believe. They just can't be honest about it.
,They believe in perpetually having their hands in all our back pockets. Then growing government dependency, until it reaches a self-perpetuating, critical mass that ensures total power forever.
Try putting that on a ballot. Though NYC mayor's race is as close as this comes to Democrats being honest about their real agenda.
You are likely correct, but they will never say what they believe or put it in print.
It is our job now, to put their real agenda out there - with names, dates and facts. Debunk their smoke-screens, then nail the facts down.
We are starting this process right here and right now, as readership of the SB Current site grows. And people don't feel they are so alone in this town, that actually did vote over 30% for Trump, rejection of the Democrat agenda, and for exactly the change we are now seeing.
It already begins: Rep Kevin Kiley (R) points out the tricks already getting played. He is a primary target of Newsom's re-districting scam which eliminates his district and puts him in a Democrat majority district :
"Newsom has set a "Special Election" for his Redistricting Sham: November 4. He also just released a poll suggesting 57% of voters are for it. But a Politico poll shows 64% against it. The difference is fraud.
****Newsom has twisted the ballot language to make “Yes” look like “No.”****"
Democrat voters will vote for ANY person, the more brain dead and corrupt the better, and they all vote in a block. That is the danger. Republicans vote for character and accomplishments and thus often are split on who to support. Democrats do not care about character or accomplishment's, only that they win, and they will vote as a block even while holding their nose over their own candidate. Republicans will lose unless we do two things. 1) Eliminate RINO's from our ranks who make it appear that we won an election only to find RINO's are stopping us more than Democrats, and 2) Learn to stick together and vote as a block like Democrats. Otherwise in 3 years we will be right back where we started, or worse.
Truer words were never written.
Democrats even dress alike - many of them sport purple and yellow T-shirts.
There are 10,367,321 registered voters in California. The Democratic Party has 45.27% of them tied up. There are 2,381,000 union members in California. The Democratic Part has 59% of them according to Pew Research. The registered Democrats are fiercely loyal and do not regard the Republicans have anything to offer them. The Democratic Party Politicians and the Unions are hand-in-glove with mutual contributions. The Republican Party is not a serious competitor with only 24.5% of registered voters. These numbers won't change much, until the Republican Party gets new leadership and recruits new members.
Missing are the Independents who now, plus GOP numbers, have reached parity with Democrat registrations. What bridges can be built between GOP and the Independents?
Independents made their first moves away from the current very weak Democrat majority - Independents refused to register as Democrats . We need to learn why.
I’ll tell ya what to take away from all this Henry - how crafty _and successful_ the Democrats really are! We float along on a high cloud while they lie, cheat, steal, and . . . get all the marbles! They realize the average chump on the street doesn’t have sense enough to come in out of the rain, let alone ponder what’s fair and right, so while we’re acting like boy scouts at a knife fight, they play dirty and walk off with the trophy.
Screw that - we Republicans need to get mean. We need to get loud. We need to throw elbows, and shove our way back to the front. CA politics isn’t a Sunday picnic — it’s a back-alley brawl, and the meanest fighters walk away with the purse.
We’ve got two choices: keep drifting along in la-la land and watch them strip us blind, or grit our teeth, and fight like Democrats!
Never underestimate the power Democrats in this state have over astro-turfing all their government employees to show up, and cheer every move that keeps Democrats in full control.
These are not real rank and file state residents, they are not real independent voters, they are not even "working families". They are taxpayer funded two-fers. The majority will be Democrats, mostly self-interested government employees, and more likely than not government employee union members.
The one party state. How did this happen?
The top 2 is part of it. They vanquished their own opposition on the Left.
May the Force be with you, and white sabers win.
Good comment
Starting about 20 years ago, Democrats crammed down "election reform". Only in retrospect, did every element of that "election reform" work only in their own favor. They had a head start. They knew what they were doing. Many of us at the time, did not.
How many of these election reform measures sounded like good idea at the time? Term limits; jungle primaries; same day registration; automatic DMV voter registration; cross-over primary voting; universal mail in balloting; ballot harvesting; long delayed counting grace period for mail in ballots.........
Once they got their "election reform" package passed, they immediately dug in, changed the rules and we ended up in this current Democrat supermajority state, even worse than when Willie Brown was running the show. That is how it happened.
That is your starting date--Nov 2005 - track all the "election reform" measures Democrats were able to pass that have now permanently skewed all future elections in this state in their favor.
We got caught flat-footed. Without breaking up the current Democrat super-majority that almost instantly evolved from "election reform" in Sacramento, there is no hope. Yet we continue to send our own mini-Democrat super majority (Monique Limon and Gregg Hart) to ensure Democrats state wide to keep doing this to us.
..........The whole “We hate Trump” diatribe has become white noise billowing in cyber space....
That one line took my breath away. A polished gem of commentary. Thank you.
A+ for content. A+ for style.
When did the California Democrat party first go to the mattresses and use every tool at their disposal to never be threatened ever again? November 2005
Democrat's existential frog brain was threatened after the Gov Gray Davis recall. The teachers unions in particular mounted a massive PR offensive, that even got the reform-minded governor eventually to come over to their side. California has never been the same since.
"...ABSTRACT: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called a special election in November 2005. There were eight citizen initiatives on the ballot, including four reform measures endorsed by the governor, and all eight measures were defeated. ......
NB: What were those four ballot reform measures and what shape would the state be in today, if they had passed? Teacher tenure was one of them as Californians saw their once exceptional public education system falter and fail every year.
Gov Schwarzenegger's four ballot reform measures out of eight other measures on the same ballot "Voters" rejected in 2005 - which party and their members had the most at stake defeating them?
https://ballotpedia.org/California_2005_ballot_propositions
2005 election reform measures - all defeated by "voters". The sleeping giant, the government employee unions, had been awakened
---1. Proposition 74 EDUCATION Extends the probationary period for newly hired teachers from two consecutive school years to five and changes the process for dismissing permanent teachers who had received two unsatisfactory performance evaluations
Defeated
(**Teachers unions benefited by defeat)
---2. Proposition 75 PAYCHECK PROTECTION Requires obtaining written consent from employees before using union dues for political contributions
Defeated
(**SEIU and the teachers unions benefits by defeat)
---3. Proposition 76 SPENDING CAPS Limits state spending to the prior year's level plus three previous years’ average revenue growth; changes state minimum funding for schools; enacts other budgetary changes
Defeated
(**SEIU and the teachers unions benefited by defeat)
---4. Proposition 77 REDISTRICTING Changes the redistricting process for legislative and congressional districts from the state legislature to a panel of three retired justices
(**Democrats benefit by defeat)