Originally Posted by
verminaard
They want affordable housing in other peoples neighborhoods, not their own. Nobody is talking about working towards any affordable housing in Beverly Hills, Westwood, Brentwood, or Sherman Oaks. Quite the opposite. It is all talk. Their actions speak for themselves. I don't know how it works in other cities, but here the most liberal people are also the richest and live in the most exclusive neighborhoods where they would never allow any affordable housing anywhere near them.
verminaard is correct.
The California limousine liberal is the nut low, but unfortunately they are getting a stranglehold on the state. When Jerry Brown leaves office, things are really going to go to hell (can you believe I wrote that??)
The California ballot measures in 2016 (propositions) were especially alarming.
The left was pushing various measures which would screw the working class while enriching big corporations, while the right opposed these measures. I felt like I was living in a bizarro world where the right was protecting the little guy and the left was attempting to enrich big business, but that's exactly what was happening.
Take that awful grocery store plastic bag "ban", which in reality wasn't a ban, but simply required grocery stores to charge 10c per plastic bag (and then keep it). Also, this law did NOT apply to fast food places or other non-market outlets. This was simply a regressive tax in the name of phony environmentalism, which would disproportionately hurt the poor. The right opposed this, and stated (correctly) that it would simply enrich supermarket corporations.
However, the left kept crowing about how bad the plastic bags were for the environment, and insisted that something had to be done in order to drastically reduce their number.
The right countered by saying, "Okay, we still oppose this, but just to show you're full of shit, we will introduce a second proposition which will force this 10 cents to go toward California environmental causes, rather than staying in the pockets of multibillion-dollar supermarkets."
The left opposed that second proposition -- one which would only have taken effect if the first one had passed.
You read that correctly. The left not only demanded that markets charge 10c per bag and keep it, but also opposed a second proposition which would move that 10c over to environmental causes. Don't believe me? Google it and look it up!
So the California limousine liberal left literally wanted poor people to pay 10c per bag and that money to go to large corporations, and they also opposed that money going to helping the environment.
Oh, and the law had a sneaky provision to where it would take effect immediately after election day, rather than waiting until 1/1/17 as every other newly passed law/proposition. So this way all shoppers were caught with their pants down and were forced to pay 10c/bag the next time they went grocery shopping. This was by design, and I'm sure you can guess which party was receiving lots of money from the supermarkets.
That's what California is dealing with nowadays, and it's just mind-boggling.