Election Review

The average American voter is an uninformed boob.

I’ve said it many times, and many times I’ve been proven right.

The average American voter gets his information from television or the newspaper, a wholly passive exercise that depends on the media being non-partisan and unbiased.

Hah!

Congratulations to the Unions who recognize this basic fact, and use it to their advantage… and everyone else’s detriment.

Congratulations to the Gerrymanderers (read: liberals in power) who taught Arnold a lesson on manipulating the media and controlling the uninformed boobs.

I’m not a right-wing stooge.  I voted against some planks in Arnold’s platform, feeling that they were TOO conservative and/or restrictive for my moderate tastes.  Basically, I voted with the thinking moderates who were overwhelmed by many groups:

1. The thinking left – Obviously, California is under the control of these whack jobs, who orchestrated a brilliant scare campaign to sour the voters on legitimate reform issues, and managed to secure the status quo.  Unions fall here.   After all, who is more socialist than a union?

2. The unthinking left – These are the Berkeley bozos who will vote anti-Republican and pro-union no matter what.  They won’t read the initiatives, they won’t consider the pros or cons of a given proposition… if Arnold is for it, they’re against it.

3. The unthinking moderates – Most of the people probably fall here.  They THINK they know what the proposition is addressing, but since they heard it on television, they’re probably wrong.  For example, Prop 77 should have passed overwhelmingly.  It takes district boundaries AWAY from the Legislature, a logical check/balance issue given the bizarre Gerrymandered districts that have evolved through the years.  The thinking left fired multiple commercials about “retired judges” and “legal maneuvers” and scared the television-watching drones into voting down a reasonable law.  Same with Prop 75 which would have stripped many unions of their massive political clout, a good thing if you’re not in a union (which is the vast majority of taxpayers).  But again, by outspending the competition, the union stooges managed to obscure the issue and scare the simple-minded public from actually reforming a broken system of PAC and union controls.

Now, I’m in the middle class of California, which means that the status quo isn’t necessarily a bad thing to me.  I’m not the target of the left, so my money, while misspent and overtaxed, isn’t at risk of being completely stripped away.  Nor am I a target of the right, so my political clout isn’t being threatened by campaign reforms or spending limits.  No, I’m simply trying to improve my chances to succeed.  And my children’s chances.  And their children’s.  Meanwhile, the liberals are trying to fortify their positions, and the conservatives are trying to break down the walls.  And until the middle gets our collective shit together, we’re gonna be the ones who get squeezed.