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Moments after hitting "post," I have received a reply from the Riverside County GOP, offering to put me in touch with Jackson's likely opponent in the general election. Score one response.

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I betcha you could win in that race. Serious

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The guy who will be on the ballot against Jackson in the general can win it. Hoping to talk to him soon.

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But seriously Chris thank you for what you do. CA is not a lost cause if more folks would take the time to do just as you did with this.

It's got to come from the ground. I see no other way out there.

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Nice!

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That could be an interview to put up here.

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You should update your post itself, no? Not everyone reads the comments.

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I'm sure his people will be in touch with your people.

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Mar 8Edited

encouraging to be sure.

Happenstance on the timing with respect to this substack?

If not, then Id hate to think the party is that lethargic and unthinking. But hate is a strong, or maybe not even the correct, word.

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Corruption is a much better descriptor.

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You Mr. Bray are the Republican party in CA as far as I can tell...or so it would seem...

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But I suspect he is a white Christian nationalist, and we ALL know about those people!

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SUPER-DUPER ULTRA MAGA DOMESTIC TERRORIST RACIST SCIENCE DENIER?

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You left out election denier.

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Oh shoot...how could I forget!

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One of those, too. The threat levels are stacking up, methinks. And I actually contribute to this character, so Big Bank knows my sin.

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Yeah, one of those.

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The Democratic Party doesn’t exist either. Not any more. It’s some grotesque perversion of what it used to be. I’m out. Now I’m just into common sense and truth. Parties don’t mean crap any more. They’ve abandoned the humans. They’re their own monstrous amoral entities now.

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I don't disagree with that.

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Lindsay Graham sold out on this latest omnibus for 6 earmarks in SC. Scumbag.

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He is a weird little f****t, as Doug Casey would say.

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Faggot. It’s ok to say here.

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He’s also the biggest most evil

warmonger in DC. Pure evil.

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Apparently there is no way to pry him out of the Republican machine here in SC. Both of our senators are crap. When I heard that Tim Scott endorsed Lisa Murkowski, I didn't vote for him, either. No matter - he's in as long as the machine wants him in.

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That’s because actual democracy doesn’t exist in the US.

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Not the choosing part, no. And where Dems control the apparatus, not the voting, either.

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Bootlicker

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That's exactly my feeling too.

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Indeed, Phillip.

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.........cashes the checks for putting on the Generals uniform.

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Exactly.

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Had the same analogy in mind.

Who is the Dem's Meadowlark Lemon?

bsn

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The repubican party has been a dead letter in Kalifornia for decades. Don’t ever confuse the repubican party(ies) anywhere as a party who cares for us everyday honest, law abiding, responsible, tax paying citizens

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Neither party cares about everyday citizens.

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NM is just as bad if not worse.

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Unfortunately that is a true statement for the entire country. Their focus seems to be only on the large cities in a state. And I understand that actually but they haven’t been effective there either. Frustrating to say the least. Good luck to you. Praying for PURPLE to turn RED.

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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H.L. Mencken

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Republicans remind me of some Little League parents. They complain about how things are done, could be better, or how other people are doing things the right way. But, they never manage a team, become an assistant coach, or even volunteer to hit ground balls or throw batting practice.

To imagine they would sit on the board or be president or even umpire a game is impossible.

What you’re doing is very uncommon. Most people don’t look into things. Reading lawsuit information is tedious. Reading history and how it relates to current events, and then making it relevant to people is time consuming.

It’s harder than doing nothing…so they don’t don’t.

California Republicans are used to losing and being a powerless minority. They are like the parents sitting at the top of the bleachers: do-nothing whiners.

Thanks again for another great post. I appreciate your work and look forward to it.

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Silly bear, you think there are two political parties?

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Not really, but there's a shadow with a name.

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Wait? The Republican Party is a political organization? I thought it was a fund raising charity for the unskilled, unmotivated and otherwise unemployable in our society. Gee.

In my own defense, I'd have probably been aware of this earlier if said political party actually, you know, tried or something.

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"The purpose of an organization is what it does."

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Oh but they do try...and they're masters at it:

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

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Every. Single. Time.

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Had a similar thought reading the original post. I figured this was a case of A) the party is making a half-hearted effort because they’ve given up on California or B) the party is throwing in some support, likely in the form of an overpaid consultant using the same playbook they’ve used for 30 years.

Either way, the result is shuffling around a few million dollars so they can cruise to 48% of the vote in a district they could/should win

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Repubicans don’t want to win — that would mean they might have to actually do something. They would rather get all the perks but not have to work.

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“Republicans…might have to actually do something.”

The failure to repeal Obamacare after 7 yrs of demagoguery was proof of that.

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I agree. They are useless. My own EastBay GOP is more active

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Masquerades as the opposition while getting enriched while doing so.

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Like Aarnold playing the role of a Republican. Actors and politicians are one and the same. They just appear on different stages.

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To succeed as an actor or politician, you must be able to fake sincerity. Seriously folks, no joke.

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Bro, I don’t believe you’re in Cali—this article must be about republicans in Washington state.

bsn

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Or, in virtually ANY state in this formerly great Republic.

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In its defense, Tennessee is pretty well run.

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We need a new party. The Patriots party.

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I like the sound of it!

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Sounds good, but, please, no Neil Diamond music.

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Just “Sweet Caroline” boom, boom boom!!

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Chris Bray for California Assemblyman!!! Seriously, I would support your campaign for any office. We need more non-psychopaths in elected positions of authority.

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Chris,

Your bright light and investigative research and implications on this are stunning! Great work!

At the same time - it is beyond belief and discouraging that the CA GOP is that asleep at the wheel to let this out of control narcissist have another term and work his way up the Dem leadership of the CA State Assembly. Glad to know that you did receive at least one response from the CA Riverside County GOP. Please keep us informed about this "race".

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This isn’t just a California problem. Apathy will be the death of western republics.

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Exactly! Future historians, (assuming there IS a future), will identify apathy, or terminal complacency, as the root cause of the demise of the richest, freest society the world ever knew.

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"Eight Stages of a Democracy"

1) Bondage to Spiritual Faith

2) Spiritual Faith to Great Courage

3) Great Courage to Liberty

4) Liberty to Abundance

5) Abundance to Selfishness

6) Selfishness to Apathy

7) Apathy to Dependence

8) Dependence back to Bondage

Sir Alexander Tytler – 1787

We’re somewhere in stage 6 or 7.

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Great quote JG.

Close - I'd put us a little further down our slide to perdition - perhaps between 7 and 8.

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