If you haven’t been besieged by “Tom Steyer For Governor” ads on YouTube and beamed directly into your dreams, woken up to find your apartment building plastered with AI slop promoting “Spencer Pratt For Mayor,” or been jump-scared by Chad Bianco’s mustache while scrolling on Instagram, you might not know that it’s primary season.
The season where the best, the brightest, the richest, and the most narcissistic of Californians spend more money than God trying to convince you to vote for them now, so that you have an opportunity to vote for them again in the general election in November.
Great. So the most diverse, most populous state in the country—the same one that the fascist federal government points to as their antithesis and went to war with—must have had some great candidates that people are excited to support. Right?
Candidates who are ready to fight for working-class Californians? Candidates that envision governance that works for and helps people, not just billionaires and corporate power. Right!?