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This bulletin is a call for all those who are serious about actually winning the recall election on September 14 to rethink how that can be done.
To win a battle or win a war, and especially to win the peace, leaders, who are real leaders, know that complaining and merely exposing the corruption or crimes of the opponent, is not good enough.
Perhaps a lesson from Abraham Lincoln here will be useful in this battle. Lincoln, in the mid-1850s, made clear that only by a focus on the principles of the U.S. Declaration of Independence could a new party be successful. He knew that merely attacking slavery would not unite the northern population, and would limit the more general appeal of the Republican Party. He was successful in making the sole policy of the new party the Declaration of Independence and its principle as it stated: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
What shall be the principle that can unite all Californians today? It definitively cannot be, as too many have made it, a Republican vs. Democrat issue. That will guarantee that the recall will lose.
Newsom, an excretion of the millionaires and billionaires of San Francisco, and Silicon Valley, like the Getty family, wants people to believe that the only ones for the recall are Trump Republicans, racists and “insurrectionists.”
In addition,19 billionaires are throwing gobs of bucks into the desperate attempt to prevent Gavin Newsom from being ousted. The richest people in the U.S., and the world, such as George Soros and ten of the biggest billionaires of the elitist hi-tech Silicon Valley, such as former CEO of Google Eric Shmidt, are backers of Newsom. These billionaires of Davos, who work closely with the British globalist empire, are threatened by a resurgence and revival of the American system of economics and a citizenry that will fight to make California and the nation, a productive industrial and agricultural nation again.
If those facts don’t get some of you off the kick of blaming the working people of California by painting them all as “socialist Democrats,” just because they happen to be registered Democrats, I do not know what will. Maybe Newsom winning the Recal might make you rethink your mistaken outlook.
Do not forget that in 2016, Donald Trump won the presidency as millions of Democrats (even those who had voted for Obama twice) joined his “Make America Great Again” campaign.
We must make clear that a new governor will, like Trump attempted to do, mobilize California’s Congressional delegation (the largest state delegation in the country) to put on the national agenda the policies that will solve, not only the crisis facing California, but the entire western half of the country.
That, of course, is the water crisis, brought about by the failure of the federal government and state governments over the past 40 years. We used to think big and it is time to think big again. Great projects like the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project, were national projects of leaders who thought big and for the future.
Two projects that, over a few years, and then a decade or two, can provide water, not just for the entire southwest states, but also the mid-west, were proposed in the 1960s, and then forgotten as our economy was turned into a gambling casino and we stopped building infrastructure.
Those projects were the North American Water and Power Alliance and the building of nuclear-powered desalination plants on the coast. While the first will take a decade or two to complete, the second one can be begun immediately, even if conventionally powered, and produce rivers of water in just two or three years.
You don’t think so? Well recall what the state did when the Oroville Dam spillway disintegrated in 2017. Rebuilding and improving the spillway, a project done as ‘business as usual’ would have taken five years to complete. What was done was what we used to call a “crash program.” Three shifts a day and all resources required were mobilized and the job was done in one year.
You are serious about the recall? Well, now you have some ammunition to convince your Democrat neighbor.
