Will Californians Ever Wise Up?
5th October 2026
I fear the answer is “no.” Voting Democratic is a deeply-ingrained habit, plus the mail-in voting system solidifies Democrat control even further.
I can’t recall when I first heard the term “virtue signaling.” I think it wasn’t long after I began blogging, more than twenty years ago. It has occurred to me more and more over the years that virtue-signaling is at the heart of the appeal to the Democrat voter. The idea is that one is proving oneself to be a good person, a kind person, a generous person, a non-bigoted person – and that those who vote otherwise are neither good, nor kind, nor generous, and that they are bigots.
This is also the source of the hatred many Democrats have for Republican voters. These convictions have broken up family and estranged old friends who should know better.