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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wtf California you were supposed to be one of the good ones

[–] LibertyLizard 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

California is a conservative state. They all are. The left is a minority everywhere, unfortunately.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As someone from Europe I always laugh when I hear conservatives saying that dems are far left or too left, when they're more center right.

[–] hanrahan 8 points 1 day ago

Same here, i gave up trying to point this out.

Chris Hedges did a good take on it way back when Biden won.

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago

People are so fucking stupid, I've had it with this shit hole country.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

The wealthy speak through their payments to campaigns against the people.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Why would anyone vote to increase taxes on health insurance? Bizarre.

[–] NerdyPopRocks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The reasoning is that CA uses that tax money in addition to a match provided by the federal government to balance the budget. I’m not a fan of not making it permanent, but the flexibility of re-authorizing the tax each cycle has been very helpful to making sure the CA budget is level. That tax money is returned to the healthcare providers through Medi-Cal so they aren’t really losing anything I think, but the matched money from the federal government can be moved around. Something like that.

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Little did you know, when the right wants to go back to the 50's, it's the 1850's.

[–] Hope@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I found the federal elections to be exactly what I expected, but I was surprised at the ballot questions here (as well as my local elections where everyone I voted for lost too).

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aren't only half the votes counted in this though?

Yes. Only the bottom 3 in the pucture have been called.

The top 3 haven’t been called yet, but aren’t looking good.