The Democrats and their Leftist allies are still struggling to cope with reality.
That’s never been more apparent than when they pushed their environmental extremist agenda as a top election issue.
And Democrats turned a whiter shade of pale after they found out how this ultra-left-wing county cast their ballots in 2024.
On Election Night, amid all the coverage of the presidential race and Trump’s huge victory, Alameda County, California, gave the Democrats even more bad news.
Alameda, home of the solidly woke extremist stronghold of Berkeley, sent a resounding “No” to one of the Democrats’ environmental extremist dreams.
Specifically, voters in the left-wing enclave overwhelmingly rejected a Democrat proposal to ban gas stoves and require owners of larger buildings to pay hefty fees to use natural gas.
Massive defeat for San Francisco Bay area Democrats
A resounding 68% of the voters told the radical environmentalists to pound sand.
Just like any other Democrat plan, this plan would have outright banned what they could, and what couldn’t be banned would have been taxed so prohibitively that it would have been a de facto ban.
In 2019, Democrats in California went for an outright ban of all gas stoves, but the California Restaurant Association stepped in and sued to have the policy overturned in 2023.
Even left-wing labor unions got on board for banning gas stoves.
You don’t need to be a Nobel Prize winner to realize that a proposal like this would have driven up costs for restaurants, which would lead to even higher food prices.
And food inflation is already stinging Californians particularly hard.
So on Election Day, the voters of Alameda County realized that businesses would have to raise prices, move out of the county, or go out of business altogether.
Left-wing environmental extremists have little to no regard for the financial costs they impose with their socialist policies.
They’ve pushed Americans hard toward electric vehicles, despite EVs being considerably more expensive and less reliable than gas-powered cars.
Seeing through the gas ban schemes
To try and artificially drive-up demand, Democrats bribe Americans with a $7,500 tax credit to try and coax them into vehicles that they likely wouldn’t purchase otherwise.
And that’s not to mention all the other requirements car makers are required to meet, such as outrageous fuel efficiency standards and ridiculous safety standards, like automatic braking.
Each new requirement has its alleged benefits but also has its costs.
Cars are now more expensive to buy, and there are more things to fix.
It is nice my car has sensors to tell me my tires are not inflated, but when dust gets on the sensors, an error message flashes even though they are inflated properly.
Is it worth fixing, or do I just drive around with an error light on?
Gas stoves cook very evenly and most restaurants use them – you’ll notice Gordon Ramsay only cooks with them in his restaurants.
And gas itself is typically cheaper than electric.
But Democrats believe they know what is best for you and that you must conform or be punished.
Whether it is fuel efficiency standards, what qualifies for free speech, vaccination mandates, what kind of stove you use, how much water your toilet uses, which electric bulbs are allowed to be sold, which schools you can attend, whether you are required to pay union dues to work, and on and on, the regulatory state hits us from all angles.
But if Alameda County is any indication, the American people have had enough.