Yeah, I voted. So you can’t blame me. Especially because none of the candidates I voted for will win; the propositions I voted against will pass. This is how it usually goes. The money-spending, influence-peddling swindlers will remain in (or in rarer cases, gain) power; the “voters’ wishes” will rationalize more and more public debt with little actual benefit to the voters, if any.

California’s going to vote Democrat — so if you’re a Democrat, you needn’t even bother to vote; if you’re a Republican there’s no point in voting. If you’re a Libertarian, even you think your candidates are insane, and you’ve long since been written off as irrelevant anyway. If you’re an Anarchist and you plan to do your duty on Election Day — well, let’s not get into that here.