RE: Arnold & Adolf

[David McDonald <dbmcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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If ever a state needed a Terminator, it was California during and in the
wake of the manufactured crisis. If we could see the obvious way up here in
Seattle, how much clearer must it hav been in California, even if you had to
read the papers during daylight? Obviously, deregulation didn't work.
Obviously, the power companies were closing power plants to put the squeeze
on consumers, and presenting the state will horrible contracts that are
still costing billions, contracts that have been upheld in court if I am not
mistaken.

What did Davis do? Nothing worthwhile. What about ordering the California
National Guard into the plants to keep them running, or get them back up on
line, in response to the true emergency that existed? What about marching an
army of accountants into energy company offices where the computers were
seized and file cabinets locked and carted away, and the truth wrung out of
them? Davis did none of this, he just chugged along like the grey servant of
capital that he is. He was long gone long before Schwartzenegger threw his
hat into the ring, and no one more deservedly so.

Of course the Terminator stance is pure fiction and Arnold would no more
commit these acts of treason to capital that he would suck his thumb in
public, but the electorate, California or elsewhere, is not nuanced on
left-right stuff. They want someone to kick some ass and they don't care how
much the liberals cringe at AS's lack of political correctness. The
creepiest right-winger imaginable in Washington State led a successful
campaign against the very high license tags here that passed by about the
same margin as Schwartzenegger won. The license tax was an idiotic blow to
the kidneys of young people, partricularly men, whose main posession and
item of prideful ownership in many cases is their car -- they sure as hell
can't afford houses -- and only a nincompoop who thought he was beyond
touching would possibly propose such a stupidity. That's one big reason that
Camejo's insistence on taxing the rich as a main and unrelenting campaign
plank was right on. I think Camejo is correct that the Democrats are in
absolute disarray. The Democratic Party of California should be put down
like an old dog that can no longer shuffle to the door and pees on the
carpet while begging with those mournful eyes for just one more chance.

David McDonald



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