The Adult in the Room Wrote:

> This is this a right-wing caricature of liberals
> which has little actual basis in reality.

No, it's an accurate, contemporary representation of LEFTISTS by center left/center right LIBERALS such as myself who call it like it is. I am a liberal. I'm NOT a leftist. I'm sure this will confound many who eschew nuance and cling to their political dichotomy.

> Many years ago, Republican Newt Gingrich was in
> St. Louis when a woman asked how she was supposed
> to get to work without a car. Congressman
> Gingrich admonished her to learn how to read a bus
> timetable.

> A few years later Republican Senator Rick Santorum
> got a new federal program started called Job
> Access Reverse Commute to link unemployed/under
> employed people in urban core areas with
> employment opportunities in suburban communities.
> While Santorum was staunchly opposed to welfare,
> at least he had some understanding of the
> logistical barriers people face in accessing
> employment opportunities.

Yes, 15-20 years ago, the Republicans and neo-con right were f*cking up domestic and foreign policy as if they had some regressive, authoritarian point to prove. Not sure what this has to do with the left-wing super-majority held in California all of this century.

> Now much of the Republican Party is hostile
> towards local, state and federal funding of mass
> transit and have no interest in the logistics of
> transitioning people from unemployment/ welfare to
> work. It is Democrats who support federal funding
> for public transit. Montana Governor Steve
> Bullock states his support for public transit in
> his website even though mass transit in Montana is
> limited compared with transit in more urbanized
> states.

We're talking about the San Francisco Bay Area. No Republicans or right wing policies have any influence, much less control over social and economic policies. You haven't presented a counter-argument to my original position. I'm now expected, along with every other net taxpayer in California to pay $98 million to provide FREE healthcare to any illegal alien who can make it here. According to Newsome, that figure will INCREASE over the next few years as they expand the program to cover MORE illegals. No money for homeless citizens. No money for the opioid crises that exclusively affects citizens. Certainly no money for mentally ill citizens living on the street.

These ARE leftist policies. This has nothing to do with Republicans or the right. This isn't 1998 or 2003 anymore. The left has their super-majority. They need to start using it for something other than enforcing compelled speech (gender pronouns) and assisting illegals and the expense of citizens.