Thread by @JewhadiTM

California shows its extremism, attacking democracy and capitalism at the same time washex.am/2GCVkMx

First comes word that California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation literally barring presidential candidates, such as Donald Trump, from the state’s primary ballot if they do not release their tax returns.

Sure, some of us may think the presidency is such a unique office that public transparency should be served via the release of a president’s tax returns.

But for one state to insist on it, thus denying tens of millions of its own citizens the chance to make the most important vote they can cast, is outrageously undemocratic.

Even the numbers-crunching pundit Nate Silver, nobody’s idea of a conservative or a Trump fan, said this is “a terrible, anti-democratic idea and California should be embarrassed.”

Secondly, not content with trashing democracy, California, through its education department, is attacking capitalism as well.

As noted in a Wall Street Journal column by longtime education reformer Williamson Evers, the state’s draft “Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum,” which is self-defined as the “xdisciplinary [sic], loving, and critical praxis of holistic humanity,”

describes capitalism “as a ‘form of power and oppression,’ alongside ‘patriarchy,’ ‘racism,’ ‘white supremacy’ and ‘ableism.’”

Amid a document full of loony lingo such as “positionalities,” “hybridities,” “nepantlas,” “misogynoir,” and “cis-heteropatriarchy,” it all but glorifies Puerto Rican terrorists, convicted cop killers Mumia Abu-Jamal and Assata Shakur, and other radicals...

... while somehow teaching mathematics in the context of “social justice.”

In sum, the curriculum effectively teaches that the entire economic system is benighted, violent change is valid, and America is evil.

Combined, these education standards and the assault on democratic choice amount to a self-parody of anti-American lunacy.