(#5486) Election season is upon us

      I just mailed off my primary ballot here in California and like you may have already surmised I voted for every democrat on the ballot. What we here in California have already learned is that the republican party cannot be trusted with our democracy. They would serve themselves long before serving all of us. They do not see our democracy as one person one vote, instead they see it as a privileged system that only they get to participate in. It is obvious by the way they take rights away from all of us, especially women, when the overwhelming majority of us want women to be equal partners with we men in our society. They also draw congressional maps to purposely marginalize people of color.
     What we here in California have done is give democrats super majorities in our state government and then let the more conservative members of our democrats be a counter to our more progressively liberal members. It seems to work very well and we don't miss having the republican party as a serious voice in our state's future. I have been saying this for many years now, we don't need the out of touch republican party to be able to debate and logically argue the details of what we the majority know is the foundation of our principles within our democracy. We have serious enough representatives who listen to our constituencies and then create policies for enacting new evolving and informed laws.
     Now if the rest of the country in certain areas of our nation would look to California and see how well we work to provide solutions to problems instead of providing a diminution of rights as a solution then the pursuit of all our happinesses would be enhanced and more likely to be achieved. We here in California and the rest of the west coast for that matter got this way because we are thinkers and learners. We don't live in the past with failed concepts that are contrary to democratic foundations. We believe all should be part of the fabric of our country, a true melting pot that is responsible for getting us here to the most diverse nation on the planet. Holding unto that inclusive destiny and giving each soul a chance to be the greatest person to walk our planet is surely not asking too much!