Shorter Take on Democratic Supermajority

The Democratic Party has a supermajority in four states: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Illinois, and California.

Massachusetts has the mini-version of ObamaCare, with businesses fleeing, and opportunities fleeting for residents. Rhode Island has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, with crippling taxes and 17% of Rhode Islanders live on food stamps. Central Falls, has already declared bankruptcy. Woonsocket is close behind. Providence, the capital of the Ocean State, may seek bankruptcy protection soon.

Illinois has a standard reputation for corruption. The Security Exchange Commission is currently investigating whether Illinois' Democratic leaders engaged in fraud or a massive cover-up to hide the state's unsustainable pension problems. Residents, activists, and legislators south of Chicago (everyone else in Illinois) have petitioned to jettison Chicago into a state on its own, while the redder parts of a new state could continue to balance budgets and serve residents, not politicians.

And now California. Following the passage of Prop 30, nineteen businesses prepared themselves to flee. Public sector unions intimidate legislators. Students still suffer in substandard schools. Inflowing welfare recipients find that their stipends do not amount to much, as inflation cripples purchasing power. Stockton, Mammoth Lake, and San Bernardino are bankrupted cities, with more joining their dissolved ranks.

In contrast to one-party Democratic rule, states with one-party Republican rule have voucher programs, school choice, low taxes (or no income tax, i.e. Texas and Florida, with Kansas and Louisiana close behind). Wisconsin's collective bargaining reforms enacted by Governor Walker have saved cities and schools millions of dollars. Ruby red North Dakota has the lowest unemployment of the fifty (not fifty-seven) states, with heavy oil production and a legislature unafraid to defend the unborn.

Michigan passed right-to-work legislation. Indiana has passed right-to-work, right-to-life, right-to-learn, and this right-leaning state has balanced budgets with surpluses while privatizing roads and returning funds to the people. Even two-to-one Democratic New Jersey has a Republican governor who takes on teachers unions and tackles property taxes.

Blue states push dependence, and grow dependent on deepening tax rates yet declining revenues. Red states limit the government and prosper individual independence. While California Democratic Party leaders are celebrating their supermajority in Sacramento, the legacy of Democratic hegemony in key states exposes one clear truth: when Democrats win, everyone loses, even the Democrats themselves. If the Democratic Party does not lose its blue ways, then they should lose votes, or voters should just leave the state.