Midway through this summer, a high-quality poll found that Democrats in California were overwhelmingly in favor of the upcoming ballot measure for a one-time 5% tax on billionaire wealth.
The ratio was more than 4 to 1. But the state’s most powerful Democrats – including the governor Gavin Newsom, his near-certain successor Xavier Becerra and the Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass – have lined up with Silicon Valley billionaires who’ve raised upward of $340m to defeat the initiative.
I think we’re talking past each other. My point was that “not vote for someone when they get captured by lobbyists” doesn’t work when the primary is over and the only remaining choices are the captured politician and the fascist opposition (who would also definitely be captured because that’s part of what fascism is).