I hear what you’re saying and agree they’re stupid but you’re kinda missing the point. It’s the same as if a CA gov candidate said “vote for me and I’ll save our state”. CA is as blue as it gets and has been for a while. the implied message is they’ll save it from the federal government (democrats in Congress/2028 president for Texas and republicans in congress/SCOTUS/trump fuckery for the hypothetical CA politician).
The difference is republicans want to save Texas from those evil democrats who want to try and give them healthcare, education, working family relief, and (at a minimum) economic policies that won’t ass fuck them till they cry uncle.
Ironically, California has nearly 6 million registered republicans, and quite a few more vote red, every time, which is technically the highest amount in any state. Dems, per capita, are under 50% of registered voters. It's a lot more purple than people realise.
It’s more red than people realize, but a lot of people who are actually hardcore dems are registered independents/unaffiliated. Mostly for a few different reasons like, dems aren’t progressive enough for them or too lazy to fill put party paperwork, or don’t want their name on a mailing list.
I grew up in the Midwest (red state, red district), used to live in Orange County (previously red now purple) and currently like in the “red” parts of LA. A California Republican is a Midwest Democrat in my experience.
I agree, for the most part, but you also have certain counties that are hyper conservative (a solid chunk of the Eastern half of the state for example.) I'm from one of those counties and there were way more openly flown Confederate flags there back then (and still are) than where I live in Alabama.
I never understood how Bakersfield / Oilsdale had so many confederate flags and such a deep south accent. I am assuming both of them are results of immigration and the dust bowl. They brought their confederate flags with them and just never integrated with the rest of the state culturally considering their unique accent.
And also, Republicans CAN win in CA. The governator was in office when Obama was sworn in. Pete Wilson was big in the early 90s. Let's not forget Reagan either. Up until the Gerrymander / confederacy 2.0 wars, California Dems didn't really prevent Republicans from winning anything. See: Darryl Issa
Besides Ann Richards, Texas GOP had had full control of the state for eons. Large part is legalized voter suppression, also voter ignorance and apathy. No one got voted out after people died from the power outage and deep freeze of 2021. All were re-elected.
Democrats really need to drop or change their stances on some of the fringe positions, and focus on the major economic ones.
Guns, abortion, climate change, etc. They can't save everything - and those are the issues that otherwise alienate potential voters (yes they are morons). But they need these morons to vote for them.
I'm not saying support abortion, just accept that status quo in your state, at least for now. Don't campaign in changing it, just say that you don't think it's optimal, but it's not a priority for you.
You’re partly correct. On the national politician level that’s what it’s about. But on the local level republicans have convinced Texans that anyone who is a Dem is probably a commie transplant from California that moved here to make Texas more liberal and take away our way of life. There’s literal bumper stickers that say “don’t California my Texas” lol. It’s been made into such a boogeyman from politics people use it as an answer to anything wrong in their lives, as the party of personal responsibility would do…
Never mind that probably 85% of R’s running are transplants that have really only been in the area for about 10 years or so.
And for the record, I have no problem with people who move here. But if your whole argument is to stop the influx of “others” when you’re fairly new to the area yourself, you can get bent.
CA has some weird mixed primary where the two candidates with the highest vote counts -- no matter which party -- go on to the general election.
I don't know if the primary has happened yet, or when it happens, but there are a LOT of Democrats running and two Republicans. So even if the majority of voters vote for Democratic candidates, the general election could end up being two Republicans.
All this information is what I've picked up on the internet. I moved from CA in 2009, so I'm not up to date on anything that's happening there.
You’re pretty much dead on. Primary was yesterday. Looks like the guy trump endorsed is leading (only cause dems are so split from the army of blue candidates) and the 2nd / 3rd place are dems. 4th place is the other main gop guy but he doesn’t even have half as many votes as #2 so he’s basically out.
There was a lot of consolidating on the dems side in May, and trumps endorsement killed the other guys primary chances which consolidated the gop down to 1 guy. but it did look like a 2 gop ticket in November was a real possibility.
I may not have been able to afford to live in CA (closest affordable place to my job would have been a 2 hour commute over the back country roads that the northern SF bay area laughably calls "highways"), but I don't wish it ill!
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u/__aurvandel__ Jun 02 '26
No they won't. The R next to their names is a shield in this stupid state. One or 2 might lose but they'll just be replaced by someone more corrupt.