It makes eons, before Doge began shaking the federal government as a snow balloon of $ 6.1 billion, California legislators condemn in Sacramento for “triumph proof” of the State.
Two months after Trump 2.0, the demands are sprouting as California’s poppies, since Elon Musk dismisses thousands of employees of his career, dislikes the entire agencies and unilaterally cancels federal contracts, wielding a chainsaw (both literally and metaphorically) to a song of “waste, fraud and abuse.”
Many of the people who voted for Trump, disappointed by what they see as a swollen desktop cracy, are delighted to see any action: good or bathroom. Meanwhile, the Californians who did not vote for him fought to light the decrepit of the 2016 resistance.
We have a better idea.
Given the policy that democratic institutions are slow and ineffective, the best repudiation is to create a government in California that responds, agile and inventive.
It is in our DNA. As the largest economy in the country and the world capital of innovation, we can demonstrate the health of our democracy by aggressively addressing our own paralyzing crises, hungry competitors and anxieties that our best days are behind us. Fighting Trump at every step can be cathartic, but won the problems that drive cynicism and disappointment of broad spread.
People respond to the results. If we can illuminate the way, our success will be developed throughout the world. If we fail, we reinforce the worrying calls for authoritarian alternatives.
We already know what works. Leaders must leave comfort, keep it simple and demonstrate how a healthy and agile democracy of the 21st century looks.
This begins by building homes, immediately. Establish the fast track permission, the aggressive area and stop the abuse of Ceqa that stops development for years. If a company can be relocated in months, the house should not take a decade to approach.
Reducing the cost of housing will also help us address poverty. Housing costs destroy income, turning middle -class salaries into gains at the poverty level. Until we take seriously make the house affordable, any other anti-fover effort is just a showcase.
Another way to recover public confidence? Try the lack of housing as the existential crisis that is. It is not an insoluble puzzle for interested groups at the tip of the chin; It is an emergency of public health and quality of life that demands a natural state response at the disaster level. We need a Marshall Plan for the production of housing and shelters with regulatory obstacles of FEER, along with mandatory transport to transport transitions.
We must also make it easy, not more difficult, do business in California. It is not just taxes away from companies: it is a desktop, ineptitue and a huge lack of urgency. Other states move heaven and earth to attract our employers, then organize a party for companies when they sign on the dotted line. We can be the most difficult place in the United States to operate.
Finally, we must claim our mantle as brave risk creators. We cannot afford a formulation of slow policies and risk Alengo in a world of rapid movement. We should lead the use of digital technology to provide public services. If we cannot move quickly, we will lose with the states that can. More important, we will lose the hearts and minds of the Californians who see the Bull-in-A-China-Shop methods of Trump and Musk and we will say: “Well, at least they do something …”
Inertia and bureaucracy are turning our state into what our critics claim: a place where great ideas die under a process mountain. That must end. The best way to silence the voices that are for strong men is to make democracy work, fast, effective, without apologies. We have talent, resources and plan. Let’s stop talking about what is possible and we try.
If California cannot show the future the future, someone else will, and may not be so brilliant.
Tracy Hernández is CEO of the New California Coalition, a non -partisan group of daily voters, business leaders and community organizations.
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