I’ve always viewed myself more as a Liberal than a Democrat, earlier in my life back when the Republicans would run Liberal candidates, I’d vote for them over more conservative Democrats. I have been following this budget mess with some concern that the basic values I believe I share with other Liberals are not shared by the core of the Democratic Party in this state.<\/p>\n
With the (likely) passage of this budget tonight, I am now convinced this is the case; I cannot support the Democratic Party in California, I can’t vote for any of their candidates for election, and I certainly won’t be giving them any money. What’s the point if all they do is implement these disastrous policies?<\/p>\n
So, what alternatives are there out there? Is the Green Party a viable alternative? They look like they should be; why haven’t they made an effort to show they are the true party of Liberal\/progressive politics in California? With the caving in Sacramento, this should be their opportunity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve always viewed myself more as a Liberal than a Democrat, earlier in my life back when the Republicans would run Liberal candidates, I’d vote for them over more conservative Democrats. I have been following this budget mess with some concern that the basic values I believe I share with other Liberals are not shared by the core of the Democratic Party in this state.<\/p>\n
With the (likely) passage of this budget tonight, I am now convinced this is the case; I cannot support the Democratic Party in California, I can’t vote for any of their candidates for election, and I certainly won’t be giving them any money. What’s the point if all they do is implement these disastrous policies?<\/p>\n
So, what alternatives are there out there? Is the Green Party a viable alternative? They look like they should be; why haven’t they made an effort to show they are the true party of Liberal\/progressive politics in California? With the caving in Sacramento, this should be their opportunity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2826,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2sU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}