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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
If it were merely "toe the line or you will lose the next election because you're wrong on this issue with your constituents," I would agree. But does your state have an initiative process? Unless the answer is "yes," you're talking out of your ass. It's not been proved a healthy thing for representative democracy that fuck-them legislation is enacted based on who has the best 30-sec. spot in favor or against of a policy objective no more sophisticated than "mountain lions bad" or "eating horses bad" or "crime bad." A Frankenstein system indeed.
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I agree with some of what you say in that most voters aren't informed on the issues and the mandatory spending provisions enacted by voters are a significant factor in the CA budget mess.
The other thing that people in this state have to accept is that they have enjoyed practically free high quality universities and the state can no longer afford that. Students in most other states pay a much larger share of their tuition. These students figure out a way to do it, even in states with lower average and median incomes.
