Sadly I feel that Newscum is going to rig this election (the voting machines and the count) in his favor like all the other elections that have happened since he became the Governor of Commifornia. I hope this isn’t the case, but the Republican Party has been so ineffectual over the past 20 plus years here in CA. Even though apparently 41% of elegible age voters here are registered Republicans. (Who many don’t vote.) 🥹😟
Thank you, Ms Covello, for this eyes-wide-open and candid assessment.
As you observe, "In the game of getting Gavin nominated, shutting up rural voices, removing representative democracy from the California working class, is just another move on the board."
US Congressman Huffman does, by all actions he chooses, appear both to affirm and actively get behind this move in the political game, while continuing to be both uninformed about and lazily disdainful of the reality of growing food on real farms.
Newsom's and Huffman's perspectives on farmers, as well as other, in fact most of, working America's people, bear not any resemblance to working people we work with and know as family, as friends, and as co-workers. Newsom's and Huffman's understanding of working Americans and their necessary and diverse forms of productive work are at best textbook chapter gloss or casual slogans. To these two politicians, working people are either voting for them and donating to their campaigns and causes or are not voting for them and thus are political write-offs, expendables.
Their level of removal from the realities of working and living and building more secure and more democratic communities is dangerous, as are Trumpism and MAGA-ism, to constitutional rule of law self-governance. We the people are also the people who do most of the necessary work, which fact needs to stand before the rule of law on the same constitutional footing as those who do other work, productive in other ways that earn merit or are inherent in human communities and political societies. These two guys miss the point because they haven't a real world basis of experience to be connected, day in and day out, with the lives and work of most [99 out of 100 of] the people around them.
These guys have chosen a move that is the category of political game move that American constitutional rule of law governance cannot ever afford; it is the category of move that must always be avoided; the consequences are not ever temporary and politically remedial. The consequences include consequences that breed suspicion and resentment and that create political faction and political extremism.
So when they silence or muffle our voices in the political sphere of community living and self-governance, they distort the human and humanly real world that is really there to be benefited by constitutional self-governing people.
I would argue that ordinary community relationships among workers representing many different areas of work and many generations of work-produced community benefits both enliven and intelligently inform by experience are the relationships that help us bring people who know how to care and to value honest hard work into political office.
It is hard work, work to be done carefully and publicly, to find willing candidates from among honest hard-working Americans, who are willing to give their sincere and honest best effort when elected to public office. That's a responsibility we must accept and become involved in now.
It doesn't matter if it's overturned later for being so blatantly anti-constitutional. This proposition is very different from other idiotic propositions California voters approved out of ignorance. The Yes vote is sociopath, depriving fellow Californians of equal representation in the government, under whatever excuse. I wonder what's the next civil right they would want to "democratically" vote away. The pandemic tyranny was too obviously authoritarian and didn't provide good optics.
I voted against Prop 50 because I think gerrymandering is bad for democracy. That said, I understand why my fellow Californians voted en masse for Proposition 50. Some were, of course, opportunists. But most weren't. It was, after all, only 15-17 years ago that the same California electorate passed Propositions 11 and 20 to establish the redistricting commissions. It took Trump's assault on democracy to get people to reverse temporarily the work of those Propositions. When you consider that over 70% of Modoc County voters voted for Trump, it's hard not to think that Modoc County farmers reaped what they sowed.
Your points have lots of fact behind them, and many people correctly see the dangers to the Constitution posed by real actions every day by the Trump administration and many of its supporters.
The Prop50 test represents a means-to-ends test. Even if it was selected and promoted only as a political gamble worth taking in RE Trumpism and MAGA-ism, it also represents a clear and very risky departure from constitutional rule of law as clearly if tersely presented by the Constitution and by the historical, actual mutually received benefits, benefits to most and across the board socially, economically and politically, that most Americans realized for themselves beginning in the late 1940s and into the late 1970s. [Political and economic policy shifts of the late 70s, e.g., the conscious destruction of effective worker labor unions in America and the industries these unionized workers had, for generations, been the back-bone of, constituted the beginning of the extreme partisan dividing of Americans and the beginning of the widening of the divide in opportunity to earn adequate income and to have political say in the shaping of public programs that supporting a working America that fed, clothed, and generally provided itself and was able to look optimistically and pragmatically to contributing toward a better future for all Americans to live securely in].
Ms Covello's points about subtraction of voters and voices in the political, democratical senses are valid and vitally important to admit and to work to correct now. The effective de-legitimization of these millions of Americans is simply wrong and stupid; the diminishing returns are to be experienced by all Americans and rapidly experienced. Just as Trump v US was a constitutionally unreal and constitutionally destructive decision by the Roberts Supreme Court majority Justice's, Prop50 ignores the comprehensive realities of the vital importance of the means we choose and why we make compromised means-related choices in the first place. The better means, no matter how difficult the tasks involved are always the promptly needed choice to find our footing together on the way to a more secure and cooperatively sought after set of ends or outcomes.
Again, I see and understand your observation.
I would be grateful for additional information if you have more to share. There also is my comment herein to tear apart, ask questions about,....
Well written mostly, but you're preaching to the choir. By not mentioning that the 5 seats in Texas were publicly called for gerrymandering by the president, this comes across as biased, and readers will wonder what else you left out. These issues and stories are critically important, but to reach the widest audience possible and have them appreciate the rural perspective, you have to call a spade a spade.
Just a poor boy raised in Oakland that spent his last 25yrs in Scott's Valley Lake County. I don't give a rip, this is my home, I ain't leaving for nobody. I will die and be interred here.Post that Sacramento
Sadly I feel that Newscum is going to rig this election (the voting machines and the count) in his favor like all the other elections that have happened since he became the Governor of Commifornia. I hope this isn’t the case, but the Republican Party has been so ineffectual over the past 20 plus years here in CA. Even though apparently 41% of elegible age voters here are registered Republicans. (Who many don’t vote.) 🥹😟
Thank you, Ms Covello, for this eyes-wide-open and candid assessment.
As you observe, "In the game of getting Gavin nominated, shutting up rural voices, removing representative democracy from the California working class, is just another move on the board."
US Congressman Huffman does, by all actions he chooses, appear both to affirm and actively get behind this move in the political game, while continuing to be both uninformed about and lazily disdainful of the reality of growing food on real farms.
Newsom's and Huffman's perspectives on farmers, as well as other, in fact most of, working America's people, bear not any resemblance to working people we work with and know as family, as friends, and as co-workers. Newsom's and Huffman's understanding of working Americans and their necessary and diverse forms of productive work are at best textbook chapter gloss or casual slogans. To these two politicians, working people are either voting for them and donating to their campaigns and causes or are not voting for them and thus are political write-offs, expendables.
Their level of removal from the realities of working and living and building more secure and more democratic communities is dangerous, as are Trumpism and MAGA-ism, to constitutional rule of law self-governance. We the people are also the people who do most of the necessary work, which fact needs to stand before the rule of law on the same constitutional footing as those who do other work, productive in other ways that earn merit or are inherent in human communities and political societies. These two guys miss the point because they haven't a real world basis of experience to be connected, day in and day out, with the lives and work of most [99 out of 100 of] the people around them.
These guys have chosen a move that is the category of political game move that American constitutional rule of law governance cannot ever afford; it is the category of move that must always be avoided; the consequences are not ever temporary and politically remedial. The consequences include consequences that breed suspicion and resentment and that create political faction and political extremism.
So when they silence or muffle our voices in the political sphere of community living and self-governance, they distort the human and humanly real world that is really there to be benefited by constitutional self-governing people.
I would argue that ordinary community relationships among workers representing many different areas of work and many generations of work-produced community benefits both enliven and intelligently inform by experience are the relationships that help us bring people who know how to care and to value honest hard work into political office.
It is hard work, work to be done carefully and publicly, to find willing candidates from among honest hard-working Americans, who are willing to give their sincere and honest best effort when elected to public office. That's a responsibility we must accept and become involved in now.
It doesn't matter if it's overturned later for being so blatantly anti-constitutional. This proposition is very different from other idiotic propositions California voters approved out of ignorance. The Yes vote is sociopath, depriving fellow Californians of equal representation in the government, under whatever excuse. I wonder what's the next civil right they would want to "democratically" vote away. The pandemic tyranny was too obviously authoritarian and didn't provide good optics.
When goes taxation without representation begin? Forty percent of California voters will be silenced.
I voted against Prop 50 because I think gerrymandering is bad for democracy. That said, I understand why my fellow Californians voted en masse for Proposition 50. Some were, of course, opportunists. But most weren't. It was, after all, only 15-17 years ago that the same California electorate passed Propositions 11 and 20 to establish the redistricting commissions. It took Trump's assault on democracy to get people to reverse temporarily the work of those Propositions. When you consider that over 70% of Modoc County voters voted for Trump, it's hard not to think that Modoc County farmers reaped what they sowed.
Thank you, Carl, for this candid reply.
Your points have lots of fact behind them, and many people correctly see the dangers to the Constitution posed by real actions every day by the Trump administration and many of its supporters.
The Prop50 test represents a means-to-ends test. Even if it was selected and promoted only as a political gamble worth taking in RE Trumpism and MAGA-ism, it also represents a clear and very risky departure from constitutional rule of law as clearly if tersely presented by the Constitution and by the historical, actual mutually received benefits, benefits to most and across the board socially, economically and politically, that most Americans realized for themselves beginning in the late 1940s and into the late 1970s. [Political and economic policy shifts of the late 70s, e.g., the conscious destruction of effective worker labor unions in America and the industries these unionized workers had, for generations, been the back-bone of, constituted the beginning of the extreme partisan dividing of Americans and the beginning of the widening of the divide in opportunity to earn adequate income and to have political say in the shaping of public programs that supporting a working America that fed, clothed, and generally provided itself and was able to look optimistically and pragmatically to contributing toward a better future for all Americans to live securely in].
Ms Covello's points about subtraction of voters and voices in the political, democratical senses are valid and vitally important to admit and to work to correct now. The effective de-legitimization of these millions of Americans is simply wrong and stupid; the diminishing returns are to be experienced by all Americans and rapidly experienced. Just as Trump v US was a constitutionally unreal and constitutionally destructive decision by the Roberts Supreme Court majority Justice's, Prop50 ignores the comprehensive realities of the vital importance of the means we choose and why we make compromised means-related choices in the first place. The better means, no matter how difficult the tasks involved are always the promptly needed choice to find our footing together on the way to a more secure and cooperatively sought after set of ends or outcomes.
Again, I see and understand your observation.
I would be grateful for additional information if you have more to share. There also is my comment herein to tear apart, ask questions about,....
Thanks.
Sad about the results! Not surprised though! Are you aware of this? Is it real?
https://www.newcaliforniastate.com/
The whole point was to silence rural California.
Well written mostly, but you're preaching to the choir. By not mentioning that the 5 seats in Texas were publicly called for gerrymandering by the president, this comes across as biased, and readers will wonder what else you left out. These issues and stories are critically important, but to reach the widest audience possible and have them appreciate the rural perspective, you have to call a spade a spade.
Just a poor boy raised in Oakland that spent his last 25yrs in Scott's Valley Lake County. I don't give a rip, this is my home, I ain't leaving for nobody. I will die and be interred here.Post that Sacramento
So disgusting. You can't imagine how much I hate Newsom right now. “By hook or by crook” is the only motto for the Democrats today
CWII is just a matter of time now.
You're wrong.
Did you just confirm that the illegal migrants vote?