Why Californians Choose Democrats

Anyone who wants to conduct business or politics in California who isn’t a Democrat is crazy. They run everything here...

Scaring voters witless with warnings of racist, sexist, climate crisis-denying Trumpian fascists poised to destroy democracy and then the world, works...

... the Jarvis-Gann Initiative of 1978, which limited property taxes... has given millions of Californians yearly property tax bills that someone in Texas can only dream of...

What environmentalists in California have done is effectively shut down housing construction... and the result is a housing shortage that makes purchasing or renting a home too expensive for people with average household incomes. What better way to keep the riffraff out?...

Byzantine permitting requirements through countless state, regional, and local agencies. Expensive fees, requiring payment even before approvals are secured... And what is the end result? People already living in California have pulled up the ladder...

Democrats in California haven’t just crammed down the housing market; they’ve also overregulated the state’s oil and gas, farming, ranching, and logging industries to the point of near collapse. Which brings us to one of the most powerful hidden incentives of all to be a Democrat in California. When there is scarcity in all things, the corporations that remain standing are positioned to raise prices to captive consumers who lack competitive alternatives...

In California, where regulations have created artificial scarcity, only the biggest corporations can survive. But they don’t just survive; they thrive... Smaller businesses fold, and big businesses pick up their assets and their customers.

The reasons to be a Democrat in California, ultimately, are cynical and self-aggrandizing. It is a union of special interests that has perfected an appealing populist rhetoric, while in fact the political economy they’ve built is essentially a fascist partnership of big government, big labor, and big corporations...