{"id":422067,"date":"2026-08-02T22:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422067\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T22:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:51:14","slug":"california-democrats-need-more-spine-to-stop-the-socialists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422067\/","title":{"rendered":"California Democrats need more spine to stop the socialists"},"content":{"rendered":"

The only way for Democrats to stop the socialist takeover of their party<\/a> is for party leaders to take a stand.<\/p>\n

But California Democrats are still confused.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, California Democrats voted to endorse Ben Allen over Jane Kim<\/a> for insurance commissioner, in an important race that pits two Democrats against each other.<\/p>\n

Kim had been the favorite<\/a>. She is a former San Francisco supervisor, and enjoyed the endorsement of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, whose minions are winning Democratic primary races everywhere.<\/p>\n

Typically, the candidate from Northern California has the edge. That’s where the power and money are.<\/p>\n

And Kim finished comfortably ahead of Allen in the June primary.<\/p>\n

But Kim had a hilariously bad interview<\/a> last month in which she struggled to list her qualifications and to provide any idea of what she would do as insurance commissioner.<\/p>\n

Her own hometown paper called her a “disaster,” citing her plan for a socialist-style, state-run home insurance system. (As if the existing “California Fair Plan” could be any worse.)<\/p>\n

California Democrats decided that Kim was a bridge too far, pushing Allen past the 60% threshold for the party’s official endorsement \u2014 a rare achievement, and a strong statement of support.<\/p>\n

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has opposed Proposition 40, the so-called “billionaire tax.” Getty Images<\/p>\n

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Aspiring replacement Xavier Becerra has also vocalized his stance against the bill, despite its popularity among Democratic socialists. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the California Democrats voted to endorse Proposition 40 \u2014 the so-called “billionaire tax”<\/a> \u2014 despite the fact that both Gavin Newsom and aspiring replacement Xavier Becerra have come out against it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Newsom and Becerra aren’t putting much effort into opposing Proposition 40, which would impose a 5% wealth tax on the state’s billionaires.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Sanders and the socialist activists within the party have embraced the idea with feverish enthusiasm. They won’t take “no” for an answer; at the party’s conference, the participants narrowly failed to put Proposition 40 over the 60% threshold.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So they voted three times until they achieved the result they wanted. (This is what democracy looks like, apparently: You vote until the “correct” side wins.)<\/p>\n

The very idea of the billionaire tax has caused some of California’s richest entrepreneurs<\/a> \u2014 and biggest taxpayers \u2014 to flee the state.<\/p>\n

It’s a socialist scheme cooked up by the SEUI United Healthcare Workers West union, supposedly to fund healthcare spending \u2014 and therefore to benefit its own members.<\/p>\n

So California Democrats have not shaken off the socialists after all.<\/p>\n

Democrats need to decide who they are. If socialism is the party’s future, California, and America, are heading for big trouble.<\/p>\n

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