I'm something of an anomaly, being a native Californian and a conservative Republican, but then again, I spent 23 years away from this state before moving back 6 years ago. After observing the stupidity of the elite in Sacramento, I've been able to take away a number traits about how they make laws.
Typically, California politics has never been about the common good. You basically have a little bubble of very rich, very stupid liberal politicians who live in the state capital, and have very little knowledge of how to actually do their jobs. Any time they make state laws, the end result is always to benefit THEM, never the common person.
New environmental law? Don't expect the state to get cleaner and "greener" tech, but you WILL see generous donations from various "green nazi" groups filling up the bank accounts and slush funds those politicians have set up for themselves.
Sanctuary state? Hah! Don't expect life to get better for anyone, not even illegal aliens or homeless. Basically, all those laws do is let them do whatever they want in California's cities (including pooping on the sidewalk and leaving their drug needles and garbage lying everywhere) while it makes the politicians look generous and kind (without any personal sacrifice on their behalf) and they get votes and generous donations from people who don't see the end results of these new laws. Never mind the people whose family members get murdered by illegal aliens, or kids who get sick from stepping on needles in the street on the way to school.
Ban drinking straws? That's not gonna help at all with the giant garbage patches in the ocean. Tell India and East Asia to stop dumping their filth! In fact, it's not gonna do anything but make life difficult for restaurant owners in the state. But it makes the politicians, who have pristine manors and lovely clean lawns, look great to voters and lobby groups.
I could go on, but you get the picture.
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kspkap (13341)
6 years ago
And you have power hungry Nancy Pelosi, the vacuous Maxine Waters, should be put out to pasture Diane Feinstein, the absolute idiotic Eric Swalwell....oh joy! Oh joy!
The banning of of drinking straws is beyond belief considering the human debris living on the streets along with their bodily fluids and needles. All of the aforementioned are living very well while their constituents (mostly Maxine Waters) live in poverty year in and year out!
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AmeriGirl26 (13062)
6 years ago
I'm amazed we still have a middle class in this state, to be honest. There is such a divide between the rich and the poor it's astounding. The politicians in this state have messed it up so bad, it's a wonder that they haven't had everyone who isn't rich and on welfare move out.
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kspkap (13341)
6 years ago
Also, raging forest fires with many deaths due to the environmental wackos not permitting the cleaning out of dead brush. In other words common sense management of forests. I’m waiting for the day when the giant redwoods start burning; maybe they’ll realize how stupid they were.
Banning drinking straws....that says it all! BTW, does that law affect hospitals, nursing homes, etc.?
Do people realize we had more news coverage about the massive caravan of people attempting to invade the US than coverage of the fire victims?
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AmeriGirl26 (13062)
6 years ago
I know EXACTLY what you mean! We used to actually have commonsense ways of preventing wildfires, until those fake environmentalists from the city started whining about possibly hurting some obscure animal nobody cared about in the woods. Then, came the bark beetles. Everyone's favorite scapegoat is PG&E when it comes to wildfires, even though it isn't always their power lines causing the fires to start with. I swear, that company's gonna go broke with all the lawsuits people keep throwing at them. They think PG&E is a punching bag/bank they can rob whenever they want!
The banning of drinking straws only really affected certain restaurants, thank God. And somehow, I'm not sure that legislation really passed. We're still getting plastic drinking straws at certain places we eat. Turns out, the statistic the state govt. was using to ban them had been researched by a 10-year-old child who had spoken to TWO garbage companies, instead of a lot of experienced adults doing real field work on the matter.
There are also still many non-mainstream stores that use plastic bags for groceries, although Wal-Mart & Foodmax went crazy and now charge $0.10 per bag you get. Thankfully my mother was experienced with grocery stores from previous states that did that, so we just collected a bunch of bags to use multiple times, and load up the groceries we've bought when we get to the car.
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