"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I’m not that impressed with the initiative and referendum process. I’m glad Texas doesn’t have it. It’s bad enough with all the bewildering constitutional amendments that we have to vote on almost every cycle. There’s got to be at least 400-500 amendments to the Texas Constitution. Initiatives can be badly written or deceptively written, and can be just about impossible to get rid of if their effects are different from their intentions.
this is a very serious issue that ought to be protected vigorously and relentlessly
but probably won’t be.
And, martial law will wipe it all away anyway.
Also, while they claim to love democracy, they love the aristocratic rule of judges who legislate from the bench, undercutting what the people vote for.
Once again, flagrant display of double standards by the libcoms.
My 16 year old son and I were watching fox news this morning, they ran a clip of Nancy (whack job) and she was talking about how she would not sign legislation to approve domestic oil drilling, he turned to me and asked me the question (he is 16), “why do we have to put up with liberals”?
He continued, “All they do is make schools unsafe, and try to convince us that America is bad and evil, they give rights to criminals, try to take away our guns so criminals have more rights, try to weaken our military, and they won’t drill for oil to lower gas prices — why do we have to listen to them.”
“If they don’t like it here and they think America is such a bad place, why don’t they all move to another country that will let them organize their crazy country in their own image.”
I almost dropped my coffee cup...”well, good morning son.”
They were able to use one judge to kill 187, for example. But that event has had far reaching effects: Gray Davis was recalled largely because of that. Prop 13 is still galling to them, and they work ferociously to drive property taxes up so that more money is available to them.
The "Left" in this country is simply the resurrection of the feudal class. They wish to enslave all of the productive class, and live off of us. They consider themselves an intellectual elite and see the initiative process in California, for instance, as a vehicle by which bourgeois values are perpetuated in defiance of their social control, and a threat to their economic security.
Thus the voting public must be disempowered. When we woke up to the power grab by the judges, and used initiatives to reverse their fiat decisions, they knew they had to stop it.
People we know as “Liberals” today, were - in 1776 - called “Loyalists”.