Written by Daren Cook
California Democrats suck at legislation, and it isn’t new. There was a time when they weren’t so embarrassingly irrational, but that time has since passed. Time and time again, they push reckless policies that harm the average Californian, while consistently pumping out ridiculous itineraries that in the context of basic political knowledge, are ludicrous. Again, we must unite and call for legislation that supports the American people holistically, and the GOP has always kept this in mind.
A hot topic of financial funding for candidates has always lurked in the minds of Democrats, and initially, this was warranted. Propositions 68 and 73 in 1988 were based around reforming the state’s Political Reform Act to prevent the use of taxpayer public funds from going to political candidates.
As stated previously, these propositions were just an attempt to prevent taxpayer funds from going to political campaigns, but how did the Democrats go from Props like this to things like Proposition 89? Prop 89 explicitly authorized the use of public funds to finance campaigns.
So, how did the democrats propose to pay for it? Of course, a corporate tax hike. Or in other words, thievery. So, again, how did the Democrats go from supporting an anti-corruption measure to taking money out of American’s pockets?
There are several answers to this perplexing question, but a key one is greed. Greed leads politicians to commit acts that aren’t in the best interest of their constituents, subsequently filling their pockets with our money. Abuse of power is a term that goes hand-in-hand with greed. It is a primary means to gain more power and wealth and can be seen vividly in Democrats’ strategies.
Bringing us back to the propositions mentioned earlier, the Democrats failed in passing Prop 89 by a three to one margin. However, they decided to bring the bill up yet again—a decade later—in 2016. The voters had already voted on the reform that they felt was justified, but the Democrats wanted to infuse their socialist tax-stealing policies into it in an attempt to rip as much money as they could out of the hands of hard-working Californians.
The upbringing of bills that were already voted on is an abuse of power and leaves the valid voters out of what they want for reform, subsequently ending any bipartisanship, which seems to be the current Democratic standard. All in all, we as voters need to jettison the corrupt Democratic politicians in our state and set a new foundation of translucent democracy.
