Posted on 01/30/2012 3:08:31 PM PST by SmithL
When a political party achieves dominance of any government, one expects that it would use its hegemony to enact its public policy agenda.
That's the way democracy is supposed to work.
Using dominance to change the political system with the aim of perpetuating control is another matter. It fixes the game and undermines democracy.
The most obvious example is redrawing legislative and congressional districts to ensure that particular parties or politicians will win subsequent elections, a practice called gerry- mandering that was common in California until voters created an independent redistricting commission.
Gerrymandering, however, is not the only way dominant politicians attempt to predetermine election outcomes.
Commonly, for example, the Legislature places measures on the ballot and dictates the precise ways they are described – words that often shade the truth about the measures' true effects to persuade voters to vote for something they might not otherwise enact.
That's fixing the game.
Last year, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and a Legislature controlled by his party decreed that all initiative and referendum ballot measures appear on the November ballot, rather than both the November and the June primary elections, the practice for the last four decades.
Why? Everyone knows that it was to diminish chances that voters would pass a so-called "paycheck protection" measure that would eat into unions' ability to gather campaign funds from public employees – money that almost always goes to Democrats.
Enacting a major change in election law to affect the outcome of one ballot measure is fixing the game.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Who cares? The faster the Democrats can bankrupt California the sooner it can be taken into receivership by a Federal judge and given the coup de grace. Let them implode. They deserve it.
That’s the way democracy is supposed to work”
Ah, decades of inferior public education delivered by mostly communist union members has made these retards think we are supposed to be a democracy.
Their is no metric to measure their stupidity on this issue.
The USA was never designed to be a democracy for a damned good reason and the progressive filth and vermin in this country have completely obliterated the reason.
If Obama is re-elected, he’ll continue to send bailouts from all other 49 states to CA. All those federal dollars become Rat campaign contributions from CA public employees getting bailed out.
That’s what we have to look forward to if BO is re-elected”
Pathetic BK CA, being deliberately used as a giant money-laundering operation for the Rats’ war chest.
CA has already imploded. It is a failed state and will NEVER come back. They may can overcome the financials, but they have been overrun with illegals, which has and will continue to make up how CA is governed in the future.
I agree, but be careful what you wish for. If Obama is in office when that happens, a bailout is all but guaranteed in some form or another. Then again, that might actually be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for Joe Taxpayer.
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