The national government arguably no longer represents the best interests of California.
By Andy Cohen
With the government shutdown entering its third week and the country on the brink of defaulting on its financial obligations, the United States sits mired in a major political and economic crisis. It is a self inflicted crisis caused by a bunch of radical know-nothings who have deliberately set out to undermine our government and economy in a game of political brinksmanship. The entire nation is being held hostage so that 30 million Americans can be denied healthcare; because an ignorant and racist faction of the Republican Party has wrested control of the U.S. House of Representatives because they abhor the very idea of a black man occupying the White House.
I’m tired of it. We deserve better. And by “we” I mean Californians.
Consider: The United States Congress no longer represents who we are as a state, as an economy, and as a worldwide economic force. Our economic future is being manipulated by extreme ideologues in Texas, Iowa, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina……states who mostly have very little in common with California economically, politically, or ideologically; states that refuse to acknowledge modern demographic realities and yearn for the days of the Old South, many of whom desperately waiting for the South to “rise again.” [Read more…]