Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday accused the Trump administration of “rigging the election” by dispatching federal poll monitors to five California counties, as voters cast ballots on Newsom’s Proposition 50 redistricting measure.
The Department of Justice announced Friday that it would deploy personnel to polling sites in Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties to “ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law,” ahead of the state’s Nov. 4 special election.
In an interview with KQED’s Political Breakdown, Newsom said the move was a “setup” for the Trump administration to cast doubt on the potential victory of Proposition 50 — a plan to redraw the state’s congressional district lines to advantage Democrats.
What’s infuriating is that people see the two parties and think they can be remotely the same.
I blame the education system and maybe lead in the water lines.
I mean, they’re not, if you actually pay attention to politics. One group are actual racist shithead Nazis, for one thing.
But the other group are apologists for the Nazis, as long as the nazi’s donors give them money too, anyhow. Because they’re rich and white, so who cares about consequences right?
The issue is that looks close enough that people who don’t pay attention to politics (and let’s be real, that’s most people) just… don’t care. We see it, but the news makes sure they don’t, and even in the case of Faux News feeds them an alternate reality narrative.
Democrats are, taken as a party, inadequately good. They do not resist the pressures and incentives around them to pursue the light.
Republicans are, taken as a party, evil. They collect donor money, but they would happily do the oppression of minorities for free. A number of them seem plausibly likely to pay for the privilege, actually.