I agree with your final

artappraiser — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 20:27:52 +0000

In reply to CA dreaming (Feinstein v de Leon): Hayden 2 years ago

I agree with your final paragraph So while I'm sure Feinstein won't take this sitting down, I'm guessing this endorsement is a positive step for California to figure out its next generation leaders and position itself for both the demographic/economic changes as well as the stark political realities in both Sacramento and Washington. Seems to me the new garde trying things out while the old garde eventually dies and fades away. California's still the place where these things happen. Still think of it as a separate country ahead of the rest of the U.S.A. It's a huge population with a huge economy and has a lot of the mix of ideology as in the rest of the country but the mix is always made with a different recipe.

I don't see Tom Hayden's essay as fitting in here at all, though. In that I don't see someone foreseeing and understanding a new paradigm as he once was able to do, I see wisdom and temperance coming on with age about a new paradigm he once saw that is no longer there. He's talking about the past and he is doing a revision after having a stroke--I don't think that's a throwaway mention. But I don't see in the essay that he has any sense of "what's going on" anymore. It's all about the past and the wisdom of temperance.

It's strange, California's

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:27:59 +0000

In reply to CA dreaming (Feinstein v de Leon): Hayden 2 years ago

It's strange, California's top-two primary system pits 2 Dems against each other in November. But Feinstein wiped the floor with the rest of the pack, taking 44%, nearly 4 times her nearest opponent Kevin de Leon, and nearly a full majority over a pack of 32. The Democratic Party snub of Feinstein is unusual, in that De Leon's not a strong contender, nor particularly powerful statewide, and Feinstein hasn't really suffered any scandals to speak of, she's just old. Quite old. But then again, she's right that a strong position on the Judiciary Committee is important as we get into the Trump investigation & impeachment. But for today, someone's enjoying their impudence.

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I agree with your final

It's strange, California's