California Dictatorship (Hardcover)

"California Dictatorship: How Liberal Extremism Destroyed Gray Davis," tells the inside story of the people4s revolt against an unresponsive and unpopular chief executive. It covers the period from the former governor4s first term in 1999, to his removal from office in 2003.
This is the story of the rebellion of a populace so incensed with having their political voice repeatedly undermined by leftist judges that they could no longer see straight. Because Davis personified the legislature4s destructive policies, he served as the lightning rod for the voter's cumulative resentment and bitterness.
Gray Davis is symptomatic of the nationwide vacuum of Democratic leadership. With nothing more to offer but increased taxes, social engineering on behalf of empowered victim classes, and a demoralizing negativity that renders party faithful some of the world's most soured, ungrateful people, Democrats face a crossroads: either find the middle ground as reasonable people do, and adapt their agenda to growing numbers of better informed voters of all demographics who want to protect what they have earned, or continue to attack the traditional family, excoriate American culture, strip morality from our value system, and debase conventional wisdom in the hopes of fooling half of the population who vote Democrat for no other reason than that they hate George Bush.
The tragedy is that Mr. Davis could have one day become president. Governor4s have that historical advantage. He had the resume: impeccable college credentials, served his country honorably in Vietnam, while holding powerful positions in California government without drawing much criticism. He was moving "up the ladder," as theysay. But then he was derailed by uncompromising liberalism; a simplistically seductive mindset that mandates a social revolution under the specious guise or tolerance and diversity, while impugning legitimate opposition with personal and racial epithets to avoid comparative accountability.
The unpopular management of central issues such as pro-gay legislation, the electricity crisis, illegal immigration, English-only instruction in schools, and deficit spending that drove the state to the brink of bankruptcy, combined with arrogant tactics to destroy one man4s promising career. These problems continue to fester in the Sacramento statehouse today, and as California goes, "so goes the nation." Or, as British writer George Orwell once said, "Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."