• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “We want progressives!”

    “You have progressives at home.”

    The progressive at home:

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      Newsom is starting to come around to running things a bit more like his predecessor. Brown was liberal, but Brown was famous for saying no to spending in order to preserve rainy day funds. And CA voters have always loved a governor who was socially liberal but fiscally conservative.

      Newsom is trying to tighten the belt again. A pandemic, more fires, more floods, and more drought has meant that CA has been, and will need to, spend a lot on some pretty major things.

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        What is socially liberal about preserving caste discrimination? How does keeping psilocybin illegal or capping the price of insulin deplete the rainy day fund?

        How is standing in the way of contraception socially liberal?

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          He vetoed a bill that provides free condoms with cost as a reason. Hardly standing in the way, just not giving a helping hand.

          Helping people is leftist, not liberal.

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            Helping people is leftist, not liberal.

            Well, at least I won’t be under the mistaken impression that he’s progressive anymore.

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              “What harm will it do” is a shit argument. Tell me what good it will do.

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                It will explicitly protect people from caste discrimination instead of the weak and easily misinterpreted protections they currently have.

                But a Democrat in office did it, so it must be right in all cases and any flimsy justification must be instantly accepted without question.