June 9, 2009

The Collapsing Global Left

By Bruce Walker
Conservatives can take heart from the crushing blow that taxes and spenders received in the California election.  Six propositions were on the ballot in May.  All six passed the California Legislature easily.  Republicans in the legislature generally opposed them.  The five supported by the Left were defeated by huge landslides.  Four of those five were defeated in every single county in California (the fifth barely carried the San Francisco area.)  The proposition to limit legislative salaries while the state ran a deficit, however, carried every county in California and won 75% of the vote across the state.Was this a victory for conservatives?  It was in this sense:  It was a crushing defeat of the Left.  Other elections in May brought more gloomy news for the Left and enemies of the West.  India held elections in mid-May.  Polls showed that the Left might well win control of the Indian Government.  Instead, the ruling...(Read Full Article)