California's wealthy Democrat donors are finally learning what patriots have known for years: you can't feed the socialist beast without eventually becoming its next meal. The Golden State's billionaire class, who spent years bankrolling radical progressive candidates and causes, are now experiencing full-blown buyer's remorse as their political pets push aggressive 'tax the rich' measures targeting their own fortunes.
As Margaret Thatcher famously warned, "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." Well, guess what, California elites? You ARE the other people's money now.
These same mega-donors who funded district attorneys who won't prosecute crime, politicians who opened the border floodgates, and activists who defunded police departments are shocked—SHOCKED—to discover that socialism doesn't stop at the middle class. The radical left they empowered has predictably turned on their wealthy benefactors, demanding they pay their "fair share" through punitive taxation schemes.
The Monster They Created
For years, California's billionaire Democrats thought they could buy immunity from their own party's destructive policies. They lived in gated communities while supporting politicians who turned San Francisco into an open-air drug market. They flew private jets while lecturing working families about climate change. They sent their kids to elite private schools while backing union bosses who kept public schools closed.
"You can't have it both ways—you can't fund the socialist revolution and then complain when they come for your wealth," one political analyst noted.
Now these same elites are scrambling as California's progressive legislature, emboldened by years of one-party rule, pushes wealth taxes, mansion taxes, and other redistributionist schemes that would make Karl Marx blush.
Too Little, Too Late
While President Trump's second term is already bringing sanity back to Washington, California's wealthy Democrats are trapped in the dystopia they helped create. Their buyer's remorse comes too late for the millions of working Californians who've fled the state or suffered under their failed policies.
The lesson here is crystal clear, patriots: when you dance with socialist devils, don't be surprised when the bill comes due. Will other wealthy Democrats across America learn from California's cautionary tale, or will they continue funding their own destruction?