Even if the worst outcome was avoided, CA ballot propositions are still the biggest institutional mistake in the history of organized democracy.
Prop 38 was one guy giving himself $4billion in taxpayer funding because he knew voters would see the word immunology and think "COVID=BAD" while ignoring the bizarrely specific qualifications in the proposition text.
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Even if the worst outcome was avoided, CA ballot propositions are still the biggest institutional mistake in the history of organized democracy.
Prop 38 was one guy giving himself $4billion in taxpayer funding because he knew voters would see the word immunology and think "COVID=BAD" while ignoring the bizarrely specific qualifications in the proposition text.
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