Prisoners in California will still be forced to fight wildfires and make furniture for minimal pay, as voters appear to have rejected Proposition 6

Ballot elections like these are one of the clearest examples of bourgeois democracy at work.

Rent control is also the oldest thing I've ever seen propagandised on reddit.

Even before Reddit took off with the Digg exodus, any thread about rent on reddit would have a "rent control doesn't work" highly upvoted chain of comments and people blowing smoke about how it's proven over and over and economic bullshittery.

It is the oldest and most embedded piece of propaganda on that hellsite.

2011 example with absolutely zero opposition: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/legp9/why_is_rent_control_a_bad_thing/

I saw yard signs for it in front of the most opulent houses on my route

You have to actually start delivering progressive policies before people will accept the value of them, and to promote them

Apparently minimum wage, abortion, and similar things passed in other paces, including places that have a rep for being worse than california (debatable if they actually are worse than cali.)

a lot of americans have no understanding of what policy does, the entire country is stuck in this "Nothing ever happens _{(to me)}" bubble and when the consequences of their actions come knocking it's like a dog getting reprimanded for shitting on the floor a week ago, there's no correlation.