Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation are portrayed as promoting authoritarian tactics similar to early-20th-century Italy, with Republicans changing laws to consolidate power. The writer argues that Democrats have no practical alternative but to revert temporarily to party-driven voter selection to resist a perceived Trump administration power grab. California faces a budget deficit while state leaders propose an additional November ballot to alter the balance of power, which will cost millions and likely lead to higher state taxes. Voters are urged to evaluate candidates and ballot measures carefully. Concerns are also raised about SB 79 producing unintended results.
We now face, compliments of Project 2025 by the Heritage Foundation, what Italy had to contend with 100 years ago, that being the rise of the authoritarian state much on the model of Mussolini's Italy. The Republican Party of today has adopted similar tactics: change the law when it suits you and consolidate power in any way possible. That's the heritage of the "Heritage Foundation": not our 240-year-old experiment in representative democracy but a throwback to the more common authoritarian rule by despots.
However, our leader and governor, along with the other officials, see fit to have an additional ballot in November to override a current regulation concerning the balance of power within the state. This ballot issue is going to cost the state millions of dollars that the state does not have. Where do you think that money is going to come from? I will tell you, it is going to come from an increase in state taxes. That means it is coming out of your pocket.
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