Help me make sense of that - - the voters in Kalifornia elect the socialists but then reject by referendum what the socialists do? Are the voters there really that stupid?
The Dems? You betcha!
Clinton was voted for twice. You can say the same thing for the entire country.
Not stupid, just trapped by the way the districts are apportioned. No one runs anything but token opposition in any district. There's no competition. The districts are drawn such that they produce a socialist near supermajority in the legislature. Those Dems, who were elected with hundreds of millions in union dollars, do their socialist scheming best rather than representing the Will of the People. It's one of the flaws in representative Republics.
THANK GOD we have the power of referendum and recall at our disposal to undo, override and eject the num-nuts as necessary. It's difficult, though, because the money battle in elections way's heavily in favor of Dems who benefit from union money robbed from works who may not support their legislative agenda if they had a choice. Thus Arnold brings the "paycheck protection" and "reapportionment" reforms to the Nov election so *maybe* the People will be able to just elect good representatives and go back to living their lives rather than having to govern directly via the ballot box.