The victories were a clear rebuke of Trump’s politics, but also a referendum on the Democratic party’s own centrism that is complicit in the violence of masked men hunting immigrants, the funding of a genocide and the denial of healthcare to citizens of the world’s wealthiest country.
…Hakeem Jeffries, who is running for speaker of the House, will not commit to holding a vote on abolishing ICE. He opposes Medicare for All. He has said he will not hold Trump accountable for the human rights violations committed, portraying it as a question of “getting even” rather than achieving justice where it was denied. Chuck Schumer, who holds similar positions, has an extraordinarily low approval rating – yet plans to run for majority leader in the Senate. Electeds are questioning whether these men should hold these roles.
But the dissent must also come from us, as it has been. We need to demand an end to the fast violence of guns on our streets trained on our neighbors, bombs dropped from the sky and the slow violence of people dying because their healthcare was denied or their food stamps were cut.
We need to organize, and mobilize, to demand the multi-racial democracy we were promised – not a playground for the rich to get richer on the time and labor and lives of the poor.
The measure lost by more than half a million but I’m pretty sure I can guess which part the 48% For votes are affiliated with and it’s NOT R.
Kamala Harris managed to convince the rightwingers that she was going to tax the rich so hard that they were afraid it would take the entire economy down: LINK
There is a reason Donald Trump’s inauguration was a bunch of Billionaires lined up on stage. There is a reason the last time there was a federal budget surplus was under a DNC president. There is a reason taxes on the wealthy have only ever gone up under blue tie presidents. There is a reason the GOP opposes literal democracy and voting rights.
Ah yes, Champion of Progressivism Kamala Harris who had Progressive allies like Liz Cheney, promised Progressive ideas like having the most lethal military in the world, and was ideologically aligned with other Progressives like Third Way or The Bulwark. She definitely lost the election because she was just too dang progressive when she refused to condemn Isreal’s genocide or shied away from prosecuting corporate price gouging. /s
Don’t get it twisted. Progressives are in the Dem party because they’re the only game in town, but the Dem party and especially Dem leadership is not and has not been progressive for decades.
Again, she managed to convince conservatives she was going to tax the rich but can’t convince you? What value does having endorsements from those assholes have when she was running against the literal antichrist? Even George W. Bush was on stage saying “Do not vote for Donald Trump”.
The D governer as well as the state party campaigned against the billionaire tax. You’re proving the point that the D leadership is actively ignoring the will of the people.
Hey, look, I’m hoping that fucker gets stomped in the primaries too, but the party platform says tax the rich pretty clearly. https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2024-Democratic-Party-Platform.pdf
I don’t think any Republicans endorsed Prop 40 but if you want I can start listing off Democrats who have?
It doesn’t matter what the words say when their actions actively contradict it.
California is 1st place for state with the highest effective tax rate in the USA at and above $250K.
Above 250k doesn’t mean much in some areas of this state. Thats barely twice the official poverty level. The fact of the matter is the establishment democrats are consistently against taxing the people who have hundreds of millions to billions to hundreds of billions of dollars. That is a very different class than $250k/year income and you know it.
We are moving the goalpost a bit, but the Democrats have passed policies that tax the rich and their platform is to pass even more and restrict their political power. That’s progress. It might not be a lot of progress, but it’s the fact of the matter.
Their stated policies are completely unrelated to their actions. They consistently put down any wealth taxes. They consistently put down any capital gains taxes. They consistently put down any reforms to the alternative minimum tax to make it effective. They consistently fail to stratify property taxes to target hoarders and the obscenely rich. They consistently fail to address campaign financing issues.
You are correct that they repeatedly screw over the middle class in California.