Have you considered why California has such bad government? There are powerful forces supporting the New Communist Democrats, who are now three-fourths of both houses of the State Legislature, and who control all the statewide constitutional offices.
Yet the evil forces leading here aren’t the “useful idiots” (foolish voters dumbed down by the “public” schools, illegal aliens, self-centered government employees, etc.).
No, the wealthy, influential entities sustaining the iron-fisted rule of New Communist Democrats in California are both government unions and private unions. Don’t believe it? See how unions fund the Democrat Party Machine:
SEIU, California’s largest private- and public-sector union, nearly exclusively supports Democrat Party candidates and liberal causes. SEIU has also been the top union contributing to federal campaigns, donating $232,694,670 between 1990 and 2016, 99 percent of which went to Democrats.
As reported in late 2023: “Democrats and their causes receive 95.7% of the cash from unions’ political action committees. In 2021-22 the Big Four gave more than $29 million to the SEIU’s United We Can super PAC and the NEA Advocacy Fund super PAC which support federal candidates for office. Another $16 million went to wealthy climate crusader Tom Steyer’s leftwing For Our Future Pac. Some $3 million went to Fair Share Massachusetts which supports a state wealth tax.
“Big money also flows at the state level, where public unions all but run many state capitals. In 2021-2022, the four largest government unions spent $27.9 million in Illinois, $24.9 million in California, $13.2 million in Minnesota and $12.1 million in Pennsylvania.
“Nearly 60% of unions’ annual political spending, or some $400 million, came from membership dues and about 40% came from unions’ political action committees for which workers make voluntary contributions for politics. While unions can’t send dues money directly to candidates, workers might be surprised to see their paycheck deductions funneled to outside groups that spend money on politics (including those that deploy the money out of state).”
As reported in 2021 after Gavin Newsom “won” his recall election, “Organized labor donated at least $25.7 million — or more than one-third of the total the governor raised to keep his job. Unions, of course, have deep ties to the Democratic Party and a stake in nearly every aspect of state government.”
Because of how unions and their “owned politicians” put deceptive tax hikes on the ballot, and since union bosses regularly spend union dues to elect and re-elect corrupt Democrat Party politicians, if you’re a union member, please resign from your union.
Remember, you have strong, fundamental free-speech rights to not be coerced into supporting objectionable union politics. Now that you’ve unpeeled the onion and found the rotten core, will you stop “feeding” the beast?
See how to resign from the union and still keep your job and benefits:
The biblical view of man is work-oriented. It affirms that man was placed on the earth to subdue it to the glory of God (Gen. 1:28; 9:1-7). It is not each man’s right to work. It is his duty to work. What is his lawful right is his right to compete for the job he wants, his right to compete for the labor services he wishes to purchase. No one has a right to my job, including me. Anyone should have the right to compete for my job, including me. And I have the right to compete for his. “A Christian view of labor unions,” Gary North, July 1, 1978
If you’re like me, your big cultural concern is the next generation. Because we’ve seen an explosion of foolishness and evil from the current one!
So join me in being very glad about the movement to rescue children from anti-family, low-academics, “woke,” godless, government-controlled schools!
This is where states enact a “universal” education choice policy giving parents a paid scholarship funding most or all of a private school — or even home school — for their children.
Already this year, the Republican governors and Republican legislatures in Idaho, Indiana, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming have set the children free.
Texas is now the 16th state offering a universal choice. This is huge, because 1 of 10 students in the nation lives in Texas!
The number of universal educational choice states keeps growing, which will eventually make parents in “blue states” jealous as they hear how family and friends in school choice states are enjoying the difference.
I expect more states to offer more families this lifeline to rescue their children. And because the Left’s objections are without merit, within a decade from now, I would not be surprised if California voters approved it here.
Meanwhile, the Democrat Party is losing voters, even in California. The pain of Covid tyranny and Bidenflation awakened many in their twenties!
May 3: Former L.A. County Sheriff: “I’m leaving the party of paid protests, purple hair, and pronouns, and joining the party of faith, family, and freedom”
5/8/25 UPDATE: With huge public outrage over Democrat legislators OPPOSING increased penalties for sex solicitors of 16- and 17-year-old prostitutes, their Assembly Speaker announced the felony charge for these “johns” would go back in AB 379 – as long as perps “within three years of the age of the minor” are EXCLUDED. And when AB 379 was amended on May 8, ONLY “a second or subsequent violation” is “punishable as a felony.” This is the half-baked scheming of the supermajority Democrat Party state legislators!
Our May 2 post:
Tell others Democrat politicians think it’s OK for children to be “sold for sex.” Because they’ve killed a bill to protect wayward teens!
The “sex worker” and “LGBTQIA+” lobby is controlling the Democrats! So they’re blocking a bill to crack down on soliciting 16- and 17-year-old prostitutes for sexual encounters.
Except for molestation and rape, they see all sex as “consensual,” no matter one’s age. Yes, too many of today’s Democrat Party politicians believe the lie that children can “consent” to sex. This is their sickening, ultimate goal.
Yet as more reasonable Californians wake up to this travesty, they’ll oppose the anti-children Democrats. As CalMatters noted, “California Republicans are increasingly pushing Democrats on child sex crimes bills. The supermajority is growing more divided about it.”
AB 379 would have done the following (before the Assembly Public Safety Committee’s hostile amendments functionally killed this bill on April 28):
16- and 17-year-old prostitutes would have been offered a diversion program upon the 1st or 2nd violation; otherwise, it’s would have been a misdemeanor.
Sex solicitors (“johns”) would have suffered tougher punishment:
a. Misdemeanor for loitering with the intent to “purchase commercial sex”
b. Felony for purchasing “sexual services” from anyone under the age of 18
c. Upon conviction, also fined $1,000 to go into a fund “to provide grants to community-based organizations that provide direct services and outreach to victims of sex trafficking and exploitation”
MORE FACTS:
This is truly a crossover issue, as demonstrated by AB 379’s lead author being an ardent baby-killer, who still has compassion on teen prostitutes. Democrat Party Assemblywoman Maggy Krell’s bio proudly states she was Planned Parenthood’s attorney fighting “the Trump White House’s assault on reproductive freedom.”
Despite Newsom saying on April 29 that “the law should treat all sex predators who solicit minors the same — as a felony, regardless of the intended victim’s age,” this is similar to what he did last year on this same issue. Yet he wouldn’t pretend to “care” if he weren’t planning to run for president in 2028. Proof: He could have gotten a legislator to author the same bill for him earlier this year, but he didn’t.
Deliver those who are drawn toward death, And hold back those stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Surely we did not know this,” Does not He who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, does He not know it? And will He not render to each man according to his deeds? The Bible, Proverbs 24:11-12
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