re: #151 Political Atheist

That’s a all far more recent development. Majority since 1970. 43 years uninterrupted in the upper house only a two year break in the lower. Who runs California? The Dems do. For better or worse that’s the history.

No, it’s really not. You know that getting the supermajority has changed things, that the weird budget laws requiring a supermajority for a ton of stuff existed, and that the GOP were able to use their minority to obstruct. The Democrats were not unopposed. Now, basically, they are. Now they have a supermajority and the governorship and, big suprirse, they’re not really that ‘progressive’ since a lot of Democrats are actually pretty conservative.

California politics has not just been ‘Democrats run the show’ and it’s really facile to portray it as such.