Venice Beach homeless. (Photo: Venice resident, with permission)
‘Progressive’ Politicians are Choking the Hope Out of Living in California
California’s radical progressive politicians are at war with the people
By Katy Grimes, July 10, 2023 2:50 am
California was once the land of opportunity. People from all across the country, and from countries all across the world came to the Golden State to create a future for themselves and their families. Anyone could create a business, get a job, build something, and live freely… until they couldn’t.
Today’s California:
The highest-in-the-nation income tax rate, highest state sales tax rate and highest gas tax, with another .8 cents just added to the gas tariff.
San Francisco is dying under the crush of decades of progressive democrat and leftist policies.
Insurance companies are no longer writing policies in California. The downstream impact will be devastating for small and mid-size business owners.
That the free state of California is actually considering reparations to people who were never slaves, paid for by people who never owned slaves, is beyond all reason. And it doesn’t stop there – the reparations commission wants the state to forgive all debt for blacks, provide homes for $1, as well as eliminate child support debt of black deadbeat dads who owe back child support for their children.
As the Globe reported in January, both the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee and State Reparations Task Force are expanding reparations beyond slavery. It’s become a grab and hustle for all grievances. As the Globe reported in December, Reparations task force member Jovan Scott Lewis introduced the “racial wealth gap in the state of California.” Racial wealth gap. Think about that.
The California Reparations Task Force also formally recommended that the State Legislature repeal Proposition 209, a ban on affirmative action, passed by California voters in 1996, which prohibits discrimination or preferential treatment by the state, public universities, public employment, or other public entities, and banned affirmative action policies.
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association President Jon Coupal warns “In addition to last week’s record-busting $310 billion dollar budget, the legislature is also advancing a $15 billion ‘Climate Bond’ to appear on the ballot sometime in 2024” – a Green Agenda climate tax.
The Green Agenda pushed by radical environmentalists in California is on steroids and is making food, cars, energy and homes unaffordable. The radical greenies are responsible for the no-forest management policies which ignite into California’s annual “wildfire season.” The radical greenies are responsible for the government created water shortage. The green agenda is planning to completely shut down the extraction of California’s wealth of natural resources – oil and natural gas.
The remaining oil and natural gas production is under attack by environmental justice and climate change groups, led by California Governor Gavin Newsom. His new gas tax under SBX1-2, jammed through the Legislature in record time, creates a new panel of unelected bureaucrats with subpoena power, to investigate oil and gas companies, impose penalties, new costs and regulations, which will inevitably lead to gas shortages, rationing and price spikes. The bill creates a new government agency to arbitrarily decide how much profit oil and gas businesses are allowed to make, disrupting California’s energy market and threatening the reliability of the state’s fuel supply, Assembly Republicans warned repeatedly earlier this Spring.
Feeling the pinch yet? The radical green Democrats are making sure you do while they continue to use their gas grills, drive their SUVs, fly on private jets and eat Wagu beef.
Democrats are driving up gas prices enough to force people out of their cars and onto public transportation – unsafe and unclean transportation which no one really wants to ride.
Interestingly, not long ago, the California Energy Commission found no evidence of gasoline retailers fixing prices or engaging in false advertising. “On April 22, 2019 Governor Newsom asked the California Energy Commission (CEC) to do an in depth analysis of differential cost between national & California gas prices. In the end, the report delivered October 15, 2019, ruled out refiner margins as well as crude oil prices. The CEC also found “no evidence that gasoline retailers fixed prices or engaged in false advertising,” Dave Noerr, the Mayor of Taft, CA and President and CEO of Huddleston Crane Service, reminded the Globe.
Gov. Newsom has been agitating for some time against “Big Oil” and their supposed “windfall profits,” but always leaves out his and Democrats’ important role in escalating oil and gas prices in California through regulations, surcharges, “clean-air” and “low carbon” programs, the cap and trade farce, and more “climate” schemes.
Dave Noerr explained how. “The growing difference between the price of crude oil and the retail cost of gas and diesel, as well as the additional cost Californians pay compared to every bordering state and the rest of the U.S. is:
- The Sacramento surcharge
- The cost of California
- The growing of Government
- The Low Carbon Fuel Standard
- The Cap and Trade Program
- Vapor recycling requirements
- Data collection
- Air quality mandated equipment replacements
“So California, the fact of the matter is, you are paying the same or less for the crude oil contained in a gallon of gas or diesel. You are just paying a lot more for government,” Noerr added.
As the Globe concluded, Gov. Newsom’s “Stronger Proposal to Hold Big Oil Accountable” is Full of Organic Matter.
What is happening in California is pure evil. While there is plenty of incompetence in government to go all around, those pulling the strings of the elected useful idiots are evil and are destroying the state.
As California plummets deeper into decline under the destructive progressive policies, as cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles devolve, and more people can’t afford the very expensive housing, expensive food, the cost of heating and cooling their homes, the cost of water, the taxes on their diminishing incomes and property, crime will continue to rise, and homeless drug addicts and criminals will continue to take over the streets, parks and rivers.
With leftist politicians ignoring the pleas of the people and continue to pass their anti-California, anti-America policies and laws, parts of the state resemble Zimbabwe or Venezuela.
As leftist politicians continue emptying out the prisons, misery and hopelessness will increase, and the once Golden State’s economy will continue to decline, ushering in even more anarchy, lawlessness and mobocracy.
And more Californians will migrate to other states only to be replaced by third world illegal immigrants.
This is what it looks and feels like as California’s radical progressive politicians no longer represent the people; Oh, they mouth the words of support, but bow to their monied special interests while stabbing voters in the back with their treachery.
California’s radical progressive politicians are at war with the people.
Can’t the people of California sue Governor Newsom and the Legislature for creating a hostile environment, for implementing programs that amount to stealing from Californians’ wallets in a class-action lawsuit? These grinning gryphons are not listening to the public, to the citizenry, and yet listening and representing is the core of their jobs. Can’t they be sued for dereliction of duty and for breaking the Oaths they took?
Agree, Joey Virgo. Anyone else but Gov Gruesome and the Gang of Go-Alongs would certainly be civilly liable for what they have done. For much of what has taken place I contend they are also CRIMINALLY responsible. Just think about ALL that has been done to the People of California during the three-year run of the Covid Show; and not only during that unprecedented era of abuse but also before that time and into the present. These people are KILLING the State of California, apparently on purpose, we can’t rely on our elections to fix it politically — also their doing — and there are NO CONSEQUENCES for this?
Gang of Go-Alongs…perfect!
I like that, Show.
Thanks Mary 🙂
Joey, We’ve tried…many times. We even tried to Recall him but the Progressive Liberal white voters of L.A. and San Francisco protect him because he promises to foster and protect the LGBTQ community, the Homeless, the Illegal Immigrants, open-air recreational drug use, you name it and he touts it. He pushes and promotes the BLM movement as well as reparation’s for anyone deemed a victim of white privilege. He pushes the whacko Sierra Club SAVE THE CLOCK TOWER agenda’s suing Oil Companies…which his own family has interest in…passing environmental protection laws that raise gas prices and try and force everyone into an electric car. California is full of whacko “Vote Blue, No Matter Who” Libs that want a cradle-to-grave government that says, JUST VOTE BLUE AND YOU CAN BE AND DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. He sues schools that notify parents when their child decides to identify as a Lama or Sloth. Ask not what your Country can do for you, but what you can do for your Country, said NO living Democrat. The one that tried, well, they took care of him!
Another great column Katy…thanks for your continued work.
Bbbbuuuut – The Democrats are “saving democracy.” If they don’t do it who will? Isn’t there room for absolute failure in a democracy?
California’s radical progressive politicians are almost exclusively Marxist Democrats and they no longer even try to represent the majority of Californians because most of them are installed with voter fraud and rigged voting machines? They know they won’t ever have to be held accountable to voters? Trying to seek justice in the courts is futile when the judicial system is compromised with judges who align with the Democrat cabal?
I am not just feeling the pinch of increasing taxes and fees but it feels more like a gut punch.
We are on the verge of retirement, I would love to stay in California but just as you so righteously stated, it feels hopeless. This state will suck to grow old in.
Now the big question is where to go?
I guess anywhere away from the sinking left coast!
Newsom and his minions are successfully promulgating the WEF’s Agenda 2030 and actively taking the lead in implementing the technocratic, dystopian nightmare scenarios that give Schwab and Harari wet dreams….
And with D0mini0n voting systems in place statewide, it’s going to be tough to remove these demons by traditional means; Newsom’s recall election results are indicative of that…
Read the articles that are posted on The Gateway Pundit regarding the algorithmic vote tabulation protocols that are being used during the vote-counting processes. Ever wonder WHY it takes 2-3 weeks nowadays to count and tabulate the election results and the percentages always end up being approximately the same, with the “progressive” candidate emerging victorious???
“… only to be replaced by third world illegal immigrants… ” I don’t think the problem is “illegal”, I think it’s the uneducated and non-English speaking part that is the problem. Undocumented immigrants are greatly disadvantaged right from the start and will have to depend on government support most of their lives.
Hang in there we the Californians …..We will win over this evil. Why? Because the awareness of who is behind the evil manipulations of all of us for all of these decades keeps exploding by the minute-something the parasites cant stop. Now we know their mo’s.
The swarm of parasites wants us all divided and fighting with each other and stupid and sick and happy being entertained with their distractions as they systematically dismantle our entire world. This is their last try.
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Katy, you forgot to mention Gun Control laws, which may and will lead to the absolute totalitarian regime.
Newsom a stodge for the e DC conspirators intent on destroying the nation. California and Texas, the two largest states are bagged with the help of their World Economic Forum disciples/governors namely Gavin Newsom and Greg Abbott. The voter no longer have a say rather they have transitioned from useful idiots to disposables.
Newsom’s destruction of Cali is his sure pass to the position of top ranking comrade: His performance in terms of those who matter, stellar.