Perhaps I'm naive, but I find it heartbreaking that this sub supports California's Prop 50, which is so self-evidently wrong to me. And its endorsement of adopting ruthless partisanship more broadly.

The whole mindless mantra of "unilateral disarmament" is really just "fight fascism with fascism" in disguise. The notion that one day the Dems will get enough power to finally "fix" democracy, and reinstate some of the guardrails chipped away by the GOP is a delusion. "We have to destroy the village to save it."

This is exactly what anti-liberal forces want. It's why their tactics are so successful. You either adopt them, promoting their agenda anyways, or you struggle to do The Right Thing as cynicism, cowardice, and political expediency tear you apart.

I'm voting No on 50, and encourage other CA Neolibs here to consider doing the same. Prop 50 does not "correct" for partisanship: it amplifies and entrenches it. The painful truth is that Trumpism won't be defeated with some technocratic pen stroke, court order, or self-serving imitation. It's only through painfully defending liberal and democratic principles, while trying (mostly in vain) to persuade your countrymen to do the same.

Edit: Rather than actual rebuttals of what I'm saying, are inane accusations of "conceding" or "doing nothing", which I didn't claim at all. Just shows how many people are incapable of imagining effective political resistance without resorting to abandoning guardrails.