Unlike mods and progs here, I'll still vote blue not matter how. I'll die on that hill. I'll support good bills that make sense from my party along with standing against bad bill that don't make sense or are just terrible.
I’m gonna be leaving the Governor question blank in November. In good conscience, I can’t vote for Xavier Becerra. He’ll become our de facto governor when the race gets certified — likely with artificial record support because of a Blue Wave election.
Bills with votes that uniformly supported fall into two categories:
1. Common sense statutory clean up or repeals of bad law.
2. Absolute dog shit ideas that somehow have been embraced by everyone.
His campaign would be like if a Bernie Dem in Wyoming developed a big national social media following and people falling in love with them for pitching progressive policies only to get 27% of the vote in the end because Wyoming won't vote for a progressive.
What really annoys me about the "California is actually a Republican state. There's just fraud." thing is that every other check we have points to it being massively Dem. Party registration is heavily Dem, polls confirm it, and Dem donors from CA massively outnumber GOP donors.
"California's elections are all rigged" is the right-wing version of some Dems saying that the reason Texas and Florida are heavily Republican is because of "voter suppression."
Not believing that your political opponents actually enjoy pockets of support is corrosive.
While it's insane this would need to be in a bill, I kind of agree with this policy actually.
Shooter drills are extremely traumatic for kids and there's not a lot of evidence they do anything to save lives.
Democrats have a similar problem in red states like, say, Oklahoma — voters are frequently mad at their dysfunctional government there, but the default choice is "the other Republicans who oppose the current ones," Democrats are too irrelevant to even be a consideration.