I Wonder If Lori Sturdevant Has Read This?

Republicans just don’t want to work across the aisle. 

This, the Democrats say about a party that’s nominated John McCain, Mitt Romney, Dubya, Tim Pawlenty, Mike McFadden…

…well, you know the list.

But on the far left, chucking even Big Left’s current unconvincing veneer of “bipartisanship” is becoming outré:

In this current period of American politics, at this juncture in our history, there’s no way that a bipartisan path provides the way forward. The way forward is on the path California blazed about 15 years ago.

In the early 2000s, California faced a similar situation to the one America faces today. Its state politics were severely polarized, and state government was largely paralyzed. The Republican Party was trapped in the brain-dead orthodoxies of an ideology stuck in the past. The party was controlled by zealous activists and corrupt special interests who refused to face up to the reality of the new century. It was a party that refused to work with the Democrats in good faith or compromise in any way.

To which their response is – let’s not compromise in any way ourselves!

The solution for the people of California was to reconfigure the political landscape and shift a supermajority of citizens — and by extension their elected officials — under the Democratic Party’s big tent. The natural continuum of more progressive to more moderate solutions then got worked out within the context of the only remaining functioning party…California today provides a model for America as a whole. This model of politics and government is by no means perfect, but it is far ahead of the nation in coming to terms with the inexorable digital, global, sustainable transformation of our era.

You could say Cali provides a model for the rest of the country…

…but not in the way the authors (alt-media, TED talk and public broadcasting darlings Ruy Texeira and Peter Leyden) think.

Wonder if Lori Sturdevant is going to give Leyden and Texeira a stern talking-to?

UPDATE:  Not sure if Sturdevant’s read it, but Kurt Schlichter has.

California is a bankrupt failed state that is essentially Illinois with palm trees and better weather. Outside the coastal urban enclaves where Jack and his pals mingle, drinking kombucha and apologizing for their white privilege to their baffled servants, it’s a crowded, decaying disaster. Bums wander the streets, littering the sidewalks with human waste. Crime is rising. Illegal aliens abound, more welcome in the Golden State than actual Americans. California is an example all right, but a cautionary one.

Read both of ’em.  The Second Civil War is underway.  Not a shot has been fired (well, not many of them anyway) – call it the Civil Cold War if you’d like.

7 thoughts on “I Wonder If Lori Sturdevant Has Read This?

  1. One of the Emery Collective claims to be from CA, yes? Seems like it’d be able to shed some light on this *and* stay on thread.

  2. My sister and her husband live near San Diego, and have spent years establishing their respective businesses. The continued attacks on middle class survival through laws, taxes and regulations (and lack of enforcement of laws) have squeezed them to the limit. It has been suggested to them many times that they move someplace with a lower cost of living and more intelligent governing, but they are loathe to give up what they have worked so hard for, especially at their ages. Yet, it is becoming ever more likely that it will be taken from them if they stay.

  3. I read the entire Leyden/Teixiera article. It is a disturbing mix of arrogance, cluelessness, and authoritarianism. It could be expected of Leyden — he’s a “look at me! I am a California tech millionaire!” guy, but Teixiera is an academic.
    They get the Civil War wrong. They do not mention — not once — the effect of immigration, legal and illegal, on California’s politics. They don’t mention immigration at all, or the emigration of middle class Californians. Especially they do not seem to realize that most people are repelled at the thought of their communities becoming “Californicated.”

  4. It seems to me we are slouching into our next civil war. Fascist punching followed by job nailed boots being applied to skinny leftist twaats, played out to the white noise of vicious taunting across the electronic media.

    I think this is a sensible way to approach a possible re-play of American civil war, and all the bloody slaughter it would surely entail. Let’s not rush things; foreplay is more than 1/2 the fun.

    Maybe by the start of the 2nd Trump administration combatants will start bringing switchblades and brass knuckles into common use….things would escalate quickly from there, probably. According to this schedule, we should be primed for some real bloodletting sometime in the next decade.

    This is exciting, because with the leftist reprobates engaged elsewhere, it’s just possible the internet will finally become the intellectual and artistic medium we’d hoped it might be. Interesting discussions and exchange of ideas will take place just before the power grid goes dark.

  5. Im reminded of a meme I saw shortly after the election, the long and short (heh) of it is do leftist/liberals REALLY want a (shooting) Civil War? Because Im pretty sure wed wipe the floor with them. Literally.

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