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Robert Scheer: The Land of Milk and Honey Once More
from truthdig:
The Land of Milk and Honey Once More
Posted on Nov 16, 2012
By Robert Scheer
Whats the matter with California? It is a question once asked about Kansas when that state came to be viewed as a harbinger of a more conservative America. But now the trend is quite opposite, the right wing is in retreat and the Golden State is the progressive bellwether.
How is it that the state that incubated the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan is now so deep blue Democrat that Mitt Romney hardly bothered to campaign there? Why did voters, including huge majorities in the states two wealthiest counties, approve a tax on high-income earners to increase funding for public education?
The answer is that the shifting demographics of California, forerunners of an inevitable national trend, are producing an American electoral majority that is more culturally sophisticated, socially tolerant and supportive of a robust public sector than can be accommodated by the simplistic naysayers who now dominate the Republican Party.
The big news from the last election is that California, home to 12 percent of Americans and the worlds eighth-largest economy, is a model of rational political thought. Not only did President Obama garner almost 60 percent of the vote there, but the Democrats who already controlled all branches of the states government gained a two-thirds supermajority in both houses of the state Legislature, the first time one party has done so since 1933, when the Republicans were in power. The Democrats have not managed such a feat since 1883. .....................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_land_of_milk_and_honey_once_more_20121116/
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Robert Scheer: The Land of Milk and Honey Once More (Original Post)
marmar
Nov 2012
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)1. du rec. nt
Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)2. My FAVORITE Sentence!!
As a former CALI... this is music to my ears.
The big news from the last election is that California, home to 12 percent of Americans and the worlds eighth-largest economy, is a model of rational political thought.
AND about time!!
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)3. "a model of rational political thought" expect with Prop 8 I guess.
I'm a native Californian and it bothers me to read that the Prop H8 State is a model of rationality when in fact they voted to use their own faiths to control other people 'for Gawd'. They removed existing rights from people a first in US history. So to CA, my home, I say good election cycle, but you are far from rational until you stop the bigotry. The end.