13 thoughts on “The Latest CA Craziness”

  1. I am wondering should the gas tax be repealed will the california supreme court nullify the vote and re-instate the thing.

  2. Rand, I fear if you got your wish, and California was made a territory; the state would declare feudal law, and the governor would be a monarch and the justices barons. And if not by actual decree or change in law; this would be done in the very actions they undertake and the certainty that its citizenry would just go along with it.

    1. Believe me, before that had happened I’d be gone. If I still felt young enough to be in good health, I’d move back to try to pick up the pieces. As Elon has said about America, I wasn’t born in California, but I got there as soon as I could. Now I’m simply sad.

    2. If California’s status as a State were revoked, and it were to devolve to the status of a US Territory, would not the new Territorial Governor be appointed by the President with the approval of the Senate, as the Constitution provides for?

      These days the Constitution is only honored in the breach, I know.

  3. Breaking up California might be a good idea, but this proposal, which makes three new states anchored on the progressive utopias of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Bernardino is not.

    1. As much as I understand Rand’s concern; I was happy to hear this proposal was stopped for the reasons you note. Of the options for consideration, this was the one I disliked the most (more so than just leaving the state as is); yet it made the ballot. I’m taking this as a win for those of us outside California.

    2. Doc, I agree completely on why this split plan is bad. But this judicial action is the wrong way to stop it. If the ruling stands it would also block better split plans via the initiative process.

      1. I might have misunderstood, but I thought the reason the initiative was stricken from the ballot was that it was ruled to be a change in the California constitution, which requires more signatures on the petition. They can always have another go next year.

  4. There are some reasons why splitting up California might be good for the national Democratic Party. I think there are more reasons why splitting up California would be good for all Californians, the Nation and the Republican Party.

    Nevertheless, expect the strongest opposition to splitting up California to come from California Democrats themselves, from those Democrats in positions of power and those who vote for them. They like California the way it is and they like the course California is taking.

    California is doomed. As much as Detroit was doomed. It passed the critical political tipping point more than a decade ago. California is now overwhelmingly a single-party State. It can’t go back, and will only accelerate its slide into the abyss.

    So it is just a matter of time before the bad outweighing the good in California is obvious to everyone who still lives in California. The smart Californians will get out if they can. The bad Californians will see fresh opportunity in exploiting the situation for personal and political profit.

    Expect the Democratic Party to bust out the State during the course of the obvious decline. As California goes down the tentacles of the Party will squeeze it for their own personal benefit and for the benefit of the national Party. They will make out fine, even as the State gets worse.

    In a Democracy people get the government they deserve. The people of California voted for this. Ultimately a republican form of government can not be more virtuous than the citizenry who sustain it.

  5. Sorry, but splitting CA into any number of states would require approval from both houses of the state legislature and the US congress. Removing that powerless initiative from the ballot was a wise move — could you imagine the uproar if it passed and then . . . nothing happened?

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