California Democrats Will Need to Make Things Worse

It is probably time for the California legislature to increase taxes, impose more regulatory burdens, find new ways to punish mainstream views regarding sex and sexuality, and mandate even deeper adherence to the dogma of anthropogenic climate change. If that seems counterintuitive, I invite you to think of that august body as part of a living parasite with finely honed survival skills rather than the expected product of democratic processes. Creating pain is a survival strategy. I will explain.

The entity has its solid voting core of welfare dependency and government-funded jobs, but it is still logistically and fiscally very difficult to make that into a clear majority. The core has to be supplemented by stoking fear about a massive, yet remarkably well-concealed, white racist movement so as to get productively employed people to vote their ethnic identity rather than their natural interest in competent, lean government. Similarly, young women and those with unconventional sexual preferences must be made to fear that a right-wing movement is poised to deny them a wide range of bad choices.

Combining apocalyptic fears with narcissistic impulses captures another key swath. Back when nuclear war with the USSR was feared and only domestic opposition to the confrontational right wing could save us, the enlightened knew how to vote. Climate change is the new nuclear war and offers more satisfyingly intrusive policy measures in addition to the natural buzz of virtual-signaling.

Lastly, embedding power in layers of permanent bureaucracy, largely immune to democratic processes or even legislative control, hardens the survival of the entity.

Redistribution, fear, division, ideological pablum and bureaucratic rule can comprise a viable political model but only so long as the costs, pain and dysfunction can be hidden, deflected or anesthetized OR the likely opposition can be prevented from growing. Reality often conspires with right-wing critics, such as the emergence of rampant inflation, outrageous energy costs or the visible consequences of incredibly stupid policies on crime, homelessness or fire control, all of which could threaten the organism.

The parasitic entity cannot change its essential parasitic nature, so moderation, change or compromise would merely empower its natural enemies. The better approach is to make it impossible for the opposition demographic to grow and to reduce it instead. Driving the middle class out of the state could eventually kill the host, but the parasite will survive more elections. It is like a safety valve or an immune response.

So the best course of action for the current California Democratic Party is to double down on bad policy and thus shed even more possible GOP voters by forcing them to move to other states. Given how politically damaging the current fire disasters are, it will take some monster tax hikes and impossible regulatory burdens this time around to keep an electoral majority. The state may need to shed another half million potentially adverse voters ASAP for the entity to survive. I am confident that they can achieve that. People who are able to unapologetically brazen out their responsibility for Hiroshima-levels of destruction in the state's largest city are just the people needed to complete the task of increasing the pain and protecting the parasitic entity.