Measure J was overturned by some rando fucking judge
I swear to god the reason that direct democracy stuff exists in California is in order to de-legitimize the concept in Americans' minds. How can you imagine a world where the people have control over their own state when the example right in front of your face is a state that only lets the most horrible things through and actively blocks everything good?
It's mostly used to circumnavigate the legislature. That uber measure never would've passed through the state legislature but because of the horrid ad campaigns it passed as a prop. Ironically it got shot down in the courts I think but in general progressive economic or domestic policy doesn't get put into law through the props, but progressive social change and corporate and police expansion/deregulation does.
I swear to god the reason that direct democracy stuff exists in California is in order to de-legitimize the concept in Americans' minds. How can you imagine a world where the people have control over their own state when the example right in front of your face is a state that only lets the most horrible things through and actively blocks everything good?
It's mostly used to circumnavigate the legislature. That uber measure never would've passed through the state legislature but because of the horrid ad campaigns it passed as a prop. Ironically it got shot down in the courts I think but in general progressive economic or domestic policy doesn't get put into law through the props, but progressive social change and corporate and police expansion/deregulation does.