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California proves in every election that the majority of people living there are idiots, by the politicians they elect to give political power. Let them dig their own grave, just as long as they don't bother the rest of the country for a handout.

California proves in every election that the majority of people living there are idiots, by the politicians they elect to give political power.

You're right, we had Republican Governors for 16 consecutive yrs before Dufus. It was a Republican Governor and a Republican Assembly Speaker that gave us the "flawed" (to say the least) system to start with....

But don't take my word for it.

"Blame, hell," said Pete Wilson. "I take credit for having been the driving force to launch deregulation."
The former governor, 67, watches from private life as old rivals rake his political legacy across a landscape of rolling blackouts, PG&E bankruptcy and billowing power bills that threaten to capsize the state's economy.
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"I will not pretend to you that (the legislation) was a perfect, free-market mechanism. It wasn't. I knew that at the time. I signed it knowing that," said Wilson. "I thought whatever flaws would emerge ... they would be addressed by our successors."