This is really desperate and embarrassing. As our own Amy Curtis wrote earlier Saturday, columnist Steve Lopez wrote for the Los Angeles Times that while Democrats always get the blame for California's problems, like homelessness. Lopez says we need to look back at history though … to his days growing up in a San Francisco suburb when the state population was only 10 million. He also looks back to post-World War II America to defend California Democrats.
Column: They say Democrats are to blame for all California's problems. But GOP is MIA https://t.co/rBDA1jWHhS
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) September 7, 2024
Lopez writes:
“We so rarely talk about the crisis of homelessness in the ‘80s under Reagan,” said Regina Freer, who teaches urban politics at Occidental College. “We always want to flatten and simplify what are really complex challenges. That’s why I’m in the classroom — because I don’t want my students to fall into some of those same traps of over-simplification.”
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So maybe you’re reading this and saying, “OK, but Reagan and Nixon and economic shifts are old stories. California’s Dems have been in the driver’s seat for years, and they’re soft on crime and the border, full of empty promises and way too woke.”
That's exactly what we're saying. Ah, says Lopez in a "gotcha" moment — why do Democrats have a stranglehold on California? Because Republicans are just so awful that they're impossible to vote for:
In a state that proudly celebrates inclusion and leads the resistance to the politics of race-based scapegoating, climate change denial and the stripping of women’s reproductive rights, the out-of-touch GOP has been hell-bent on shrinking its tent. Reagan, who signed an abortion rights bill as governor and an immigrant amnesty bill as president, would be booted out of today’s GOP.
Is that why the Ronald Reagan biopic came in fourth at the box office last weekend? Democrats flocked to it?
The Los Angeles Times is upset that the GOP isn’t taking more blame for the flaming dumpsterfication of California https://t.co/ouVSB140h2 pic.twitter.com/7YFCFlgJtJ
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) September 7, 2024
Oh well at least they’re not blaming it on Nixon as the mayor of Chicago does.
— VK (@vjeannek) September 7, 2024
Ministry of Truth trying to change reality.
— Truthy Truth (@TruthyTruth) September 7, 2024
Shocking the LA Times is not blaming Trump for all our ills
— Art (@Artneville) September 7, 2024
The Democrats want to evade their responsibilities.
— Debyanne 🇺🇸 (@DebyanneS) September 7, 2024
Amazing wide-spread infectious ignorance.
— SeaStoner (@CherylStoner14) September 7, 2024
If Republicans would just abandon all their principles and become Democrats, Californians would vote for them and then they could work together to save the state. But they don't want to kill babies up until delivery.
The super majority runs the show. The Times should admit that
— steve lomax (@stevelomax4) September 7, 2024
Even Simone Biles can’t perform this level if gymnastics 🤸♀️
— Steve Nelson (@Toteintow) September 7, 2024
When the democrat speaker won’t recognize a Republican member, won’t allow debate longer than 30 seconds, it’s not being MIA . 😳🤨🤨😖
— mello (@mellocard) September 7, 2024
Amazing how MIA a political party will be if the voters in a particular state don't vote them into any positions of political power for decades. It's like blaming the Libertarian Party for not having solved the homeless problem in San Francisco.
— Mark D21 (@PinkPanther220) September 7, 2024
— Noel Doeg (@NoelDoeg) September 7, 2024
Given the absolute criminal level of failure California Dems have on their hands here, I’d be looking to blame someone else too 😂
— jp (@jpfoursc) September 7, 2024
The GOP is missing because the Democrats engineered it that way.
— Mustafa Sensayuma (@MustafaSensayu1) September 7, 2024
CA is the perfect example of what the democrat cancer will do to cities, counties, and now the entire state. When CA was a red state everything was much better, now that it has been blue for 20+ years everything has gone to shit.
— Brave 93 🇺🇸 (@USA_Brave93) September 7, 2024
The LA Times has been cheerleading the sheep to slaughter for decades. Maoism or bust.
— Chris (@colsonslife) September 7, 2024
This is really a stretch. Democrats own California. It's all theirs and has been for some time. But because the GOP candidate might be pro-life, there really is no option but the Democrat.
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