- There is a limit to the damage he can do. The state is already near the bottom in most categories - education, cost of education, debt ratings, unemployment, etc. The only thing left to lose is the entertainment industry and Silicon Valley. More on them later.
- There is a limit to the new idiocies he can enact. With a $20B deficit, no mechanism to declare bankruptcy and a Republican Congress who isn't going to bail him out, we won't be seeing Sacramento subsidies for windmills on all of our rooftops any time soon.
- The next governor will preside over a bloodbath. We've used up all of our one-time budget gimmicks and borrowing schemes. The chickens, as a racist lunatic mentor of our president once said, are coming home to roost.
- California needs a cultural wake-up call. As long as there's a Republican governor, the opinion makers in Hollywood and Silicon Valley can delude themselves that our problems are political, not cultural. The monolithic, secular, debased view of the world held by our entertainment industry and the hipster-geeks in San Jose needs to collapse under its own leaders so a real debate about our society can begin.
- The governor in California has very little power. The legislature has most of the power and that will remain in the hands of the progressives. Meanwhile, whatever party holds the governor's seat gets the blame.
- Our desperately needed soul-searching can't begin under Meg Whitman. California conservatives need to acknowledge that we are a small and impotent minority. We're not going to lead a change. Just as only Nixon could go to China, only the liberal opinion makers in Hollywood and Silicon Valley can change the state. There needs to be an intellectual civil war on the left in California in order for things to change. The fastest way to that is to elect one of their own to preside over California's Götterdämmerung.
Elsewhere: B-Daddy disagrees with me.
Hey, anybody who dated Linda Ronstadt can't be all bad. And, believe it or not, Moonbeam was my pick for Prez in 1976, with his Buckminster Fuller / Buddhist Economics platform. Groovy.
ReplyDeleteThis is brilliant in its perversity.
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Thanks for the link. I am sympathetic to your arguments, but can't get behind any union backed candidate. That said, if Jerry Brown does get elected, we should start pressuring him to deal with these issues by cutting back the pay and numbers of public employees.
ReplyDeleteAh, the Leninist approach. "The worse, the better."
ReplyDeleteJeff, I know this looks like the Leninist approach, but it's not. The worse part is already cast in concrete. All that's left now is the pain.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading this, and projecting it on Minnesota.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, our budget isn't near as bad as yours. But if Dayton is elected, it won't take long to fall to your level.
Interestingly, there are unions backing the Republican. Also, the Duluth paper did not endorse the entrenched Porkitician Democrat for Congress. Obestar.