Our California legislators are because of term limits merely placeholders waiting for the next political gig. Mostly in Marin and Sonoma counties they are compassionate and liberal yet they are unwilling to do anything that will spoil their chances for another job. And that is why we will never get the budget and the revenue to support it that is necessary for working individuals and families. Our limited democracy is set up to sell commodities and support the corporations that profit from these transactions. It is not organized to support a sustainable and fulfilling life for the citizens. There is no other way to view this state, that would be the 35th most populous with the 7th or 8th largest economy, other than that the fruits of this our collective effort are unfairly distributed.
Regarding Proposition 14-the open primary ballot measure, I have heard our budget process called compromise under duress and a gun held to their heads, but the fact remains that the California Democratic Party reached out and pulled the trigger. I believe they wanted to do this for a very long time. It must be extremely frustrating not be able to fix the financial situation in this state. And any of these legislators that grew up in California must remember when college was tuition free and we had the best schools in the nation and we were rich, not perpetually on the brink of bankruptcy. Or a cynic could say that the CDP was concerned by the growing progressive movement in the party combined with the deteriorating financial conditions of the majority of Californians that they needed a means of preventing the dirty hippies from spoiling the profit feast.
Regardless of their motivation the CDP choose to sell out the likes of Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee and all of the minor parties for the possibility of more moderate Republicans coming to Sacramento.
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