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The Kern County Board of Supervisors Remains Tone-Deaf and Out-of-Step
By Gonzalo Santos, Published on 10/28/25 as an OpEd in The Bakersfield Californian . Last Tuesday, October 21, a large number of Kern County citizens from every walk of life – young and old, of all ethnic backgrounds, U.S.-born and immigrant, veterans and lawyers, educators and community advocates, and faith leaders – turned out to the county’s Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting to call on the supervisors to rescind their September 23 resolution opposing Proposition 50, pass
Gonzalo Santos
Oct 273 min read
The Kern County Board of Supervisors Remains Tone-Deaf and Out-of-Step
By Gonzalo Santos, Published on 10/28/25 as an OpEd in The Bakersfield Californian . Last Tuesday, October 21, a large number of Kern County citizens from every walk of life – young and old, of all ethnic backgrounds, U.S.-born and immigrant, veterans and lawyers, educators and community advocates, and faith leaders – turned out to the county’s Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting to call on the supervisors to rescind their September 23 resolution opposing Proposition 50, pass
Gonzalo Santos
Oct 27
THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM & THE RISE OF MAGA FASCISM
Dedicated to the seven million people who marched in the “No Kings March” of October 18, 2025. “Events [without historically-grounded, theoretically-informed understanding] are dust” – Fernand Braudel Liberalism has the historical distinction of having been the most polished ideology of what became known as bourgeois democracy in the history of the modern capitalist world-system: a centrist ideology, it was committed to social change by advancing reforms and achieving social
Gonzalo Santos
Oct 20
THE CAL. REPUBLICANS' SUDDEN EPIPHANY - A BROADER ANALYSIS OF THE TERMINAL CRISIS OF THE DUOPOLY
This "Come to Jesus" moment, explained in the attached article below, besides constituting good news for the nation reflects the dripping...
Gonzalo Santos
Aug 22
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