Hmm. He’s the governor of the most populous state in the country, whose revenues, if it were a country, would make it the fourth largest economy on Earth. His state ranks in the top five in terms of colleges and universities. We’re wealthy, well-educated, and extremely productive.
It’s true that he’s not a Trump supporter, but California (and the rest of the world) generally regards the current U.S. president as a criminal sociopath.
Yes, that infuriates folks who are poor, ignorant, racist, and disease-ridden, but generally speaking, it doesn’t bother Californians.
Improving our broken, pathetic educational system is important, but it’s only a part of the solution. Trump’s support is based on the fact that a) most rich people are selfish pigs, and b) most white poor people are hateful racists.
Decency is not taught directly in school (though it’s true that reading the world’s great books goes a long way to creating enlightened minds).
Yet it certainly appears that this country has completely lost its appetite for the criminal insanity of today’s Republican party. We’re tired of the lies, the hate, the indifference to human suffering, the lawlessness, and most of all the utter humiliation our formerly great country receives on the world stage on a near-daily basis.
Compensating cop-beaters for the prison time that hundreds of judges handed down may appeal to a few of the most stupid and depraved Americans, but good luck trying to sell that to sane, decent people.
We have no interest in being slapped in the face every minute for another four years.
My only problem with this is the U.S. Constitution, which clearly lays out the laws by which our elections will be conducted, i.e., it’s up to each of the 50 states to make and implement their own procedures.
Obviously, conspiracy theorists, at the direction of Newsmax and their peers, are convinced that there is a significant amount of voter fraud, but the fact is that there have been only a few dozen incidents of proven fraud out of the last one billion votes cast.
Yes, we could have an amendment proposed and passed into law that changes all of this, but until then, I’m going to support the U.S. Constitution, which has done right by the American people since its passage in 1789.
Yes, our atmosphere and our waterways will soon be seeing increasing concentrations of mercury, lead, cadmium, selenium, and arsenic, not to mention other neurotoxins like a wide array of radioactive isotopes, so that the Trump administration can placate billionaire donors.
But seriously, what are a few million agonizing deaths from these carcinogens compared with huge campaign donations?
I don’t want to see the Supreme Court author legislation (as this is what congress does), and I certainly don’t want to see the Supreme Court author legislation that violates the U.S. Constitution.
If the American people want to ban birthright citizenship, they should elect representatives who will pass a constitutional amendment.