Anyone thinking what just happened is a fluke, after 60+ years of being shut-out of complete power in Arizona state government, is simply “smokin’ rope”. Sorry, it’s full-frontal.
The lowest-common denominator of this broad, granular victory screams far more than just Trump-Hate. In state after state, especially those in the US Southwest, the pattern repeats with amazing demographic consistency.
New Mexico, here we come, (hold my beer): If I were totally paranoid, I’d claim it was imperial California adding to its adjacent domains of Nevada and New Mexico, with Texas clearly on the menu for 2028 and beyond. Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana look to be future appetizers.
But for the anti-urban, rural hard-heads of the Arizona pachyderm herd, who have not taken seriously my 7+ years of missives about toxic Tucson being this metastasizing statewide tumor, all I can say is, “told ‘ya, Buttheads.” (you rural guys will get zero’d out with redistricting in 3 yrs, just wait)
Polled our conservative brain trust here and what we see lying ahead for Arizona over the next 2 years:
- End of any state funding/approvals for public education vouchers: Payback to the teacher unions, with the added hue & cry of “but school districts are having to close schools!” (boo-hoo)
- End of any state funding/approvals for non-standard sources of water: i.e. Forget supply-side economics, using SMRs (small modular reactors) with advanced graphene-based filtration in agreement with Mexico for shared, desalinated Baja seawater. No, you cannot have more water; we’re creating a new Water Commissar, the proles demand it.
- End of any minimalist approach to managing Arizona’s water: Kiss your freedoms away, especially all you rural, small town Legislators, because Water Police will be watching (and your crops & cows!) 24-7. Ditto golf courses, swimming pools, water parks, resorts, landscaping, water-intensive process industries, et al. Let alone those evil data centers, the precursors to other economic development.
- Repeal of Right-to-Work: “This is so archaic, and the rest of our government workforce really needs it.” A lead-pipe cinch. Will probably come with a state $20+/hr. minimum wage and repeal of ‘At-Will Employment’. Hey, everyone becomes a non-exempt employee!
- No more cooperation with ICE or the Border Patrol whatsoever: Goes without saying; could easily vote to become America’s 1st official, “Sanctuary State”. Border security? Hah!
- No more flat income tax at 2.5%: Get ready for the “fairness” of a graduated California style income tax. Another lead-pipe cinch.
- Joining the other all-Dem states’ NPVIC compact to eliminate the Electoral College: Easy-peasy vote to give giant Dem conurbations like NYC, LA, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, et al, permanent powers to control the Presidency. Can you say, “Civil War II, the Sequel?”
- More regulatory obstacles to mining, energy, & development: We fully expect Tucson’s NeoDruid lawsuit Godzilla, the Center for Bio-Diversity, to be in charge. It’ll be a revolving door of state bureaucrats from CBD.
- A vast expansion of the Arizona Nanny-state for Dem constituents: This one is pretty open-ended, given what places like New Mexico have accomplished, and is only limited by the creativity of the parasite class now in charge. Parasites are very adept at creating more parasites.
Some Possible Mentions:
- Repeal of Arizona’s 1912 Home-rule Amendment for Municipalities: Recentralizes power in the legislature; municipal micromanagement from Phoenix runs amok.
- Higher full-time pay for AZ Legislators: Ask City of Tucson Councilors who boosted their $$$ pay almost to 6-figures. Such-a-deal for their brilliance & competency in the struggling, poor “Dirty T”.
Maybe what comes next here is some kind of scorecard for these changes in the new state of Calizona? One can only wonder. One thing’s for sure, this is the end of the ‘Old Order’.
Sellers is a Southpark, Roosevelt-Republican (Teddy) living in incorporated Oro Valley; his background is federal technology commercialization
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