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California may be first, but it clearly will not end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is under assault before our eyes.

— Gavin Newsom

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"I don't know one state, if DeSantis stuck it out that he can win, not one."

This is about authoritarian tendencies. This is about command and control. This is about power. This is about ego. This is a consistent pattern.

Look, I'm a progressive, but more is not better. Better is better. We need to hold ourselves to higher level of accountability and reforming the Old Mental Health Services act, which is a point of pride in California, but no longer is relevant to the world we're living in.

... neither of us will be the nominee for our party in 2024.

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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