More California Voters Support Slavery Than Electing Donald Trump President

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Modern liberalism would have you believe that its ideology has been built upon fighting for equality in order to bring dignity to the life of every citizen. In reality, its foundation is built on hypocrisy more than anything else. No more is this apparent than in the liberal Mecca of California. In the wake of a presidential election where the Golden State has maintained itself as a permanently blue stronghold, its outrage against the election of Donald Trump has become nothing more than another example of the hypocritical elitist attitude of the Democratic Party. While Californians look down at states that voted to re-elect Trump as some sort of backward civilization that demonstrates an immediate existential threat to the freedom of Americans, those same voters literally voted to keep slavery legal in the slate.

While the idea that slavery is still legal immediately defies popular belief, it very much is the case. The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution did not abolish slavery. Instead, it ended chattel slavery for private slave owners. Under the literal text of the amendment, slavery is still legal as a criminal punishment. In other words, slavery is legal as long as the slave master is the state.

Support for state-sanctioned slavery has been well-documented in American history. A cornerstone of the modern liberal discourse is highlighting the Jim Crow Era — ironically led by Democrats — as part of its trite virtue signalling on the issue of institutional injustice. Although Jim Crow has come and gone, its vestige of forced labor as criminal punishment still remains. California is one of 16 states that currently allows forced prison labor. Although California does pay its prisoners between $0.08 - $0.37 an hour, 7 of the 16 states still enforcing involuntary servitude as of 2022 did not pay prisoners anything at all.

California Proposition 6, popularly known at the End Slavery Act seeks to amend the state's constitution to remove existing language that allows jails and prisons to force the incarcerated to work. Instead of forcing those prisoners to work, the California Department Of Corrections And Rehabilitation would be required to award them work credits. Prisoners would still be able to be put to work but would have to consent to taking assignments. The proposition also bans the state from disciplining prisoners who refuse to take a work assignment.

In a result that epitomizes the superficial and disingenuous nature of the liberal California mindset that has completely lost touch with reality, passage of Proposition 6 currently trails by 54.9% to 45.1%, or 5,136,200 votes in favor of state-sanctioned slavery in the state opposed to 4,221,825 seeking to prohibit it. Although only 53% of the estimated votes on Proposition 6 have been counted at the time of writing of this article, those totals mean that more Californians have voted in favor of keeping state-sanctioned slavery legal than electing Donald Trump as president. With 55% of total votes in the 2024 Presidential Election counted in the Golden State, only 4,022,884 voters in California voted to elect Trump compared to the 5,136,200 who voted against Proposition 6.

No on prop 6 -- ABOLISHING PRISON SLAVERY -- is exactly why i don't find california the "socialist utopia" people insist it is. It's corporate neolibbed up to hell and back. Every time a social program that benefits the average people makes it to Newsom's desk he vetoes it too. https://t.co/BJ5s4LQJeg

— Rice 🆓🇵🇸🇭🇹 (@rice_oneale) November 6, 2024

65,000 of the nearly 100,000 incarcerated across California's 30 state prisons are subjected to involuntary servitude. Opponents of Proposition 6 have campaigned on how ending forced prison labor could cost the state $1.5 billion annually if it were required to pay those prisoners minimum wage. Proponents of the proposition point to that figure as evidence of the magnitude of the exploitation of California's state-sanctioned slavery. That financial consideration was the key factor determining why state lawmakers voted against a similar measure brought to the California Senate in 2022. Despite the demographics of prisoners largely comprised of minority groups that liberals constantly exploit as political capital to push their agenda, their plight means nothing when weighed against the profitability of the prison industrial complex that California spends upward of $14 billion of taxpayer funding on annually.

With 47% of the remaining ballots yet to be counted, there still remains a possibility that Proposition 6 will pass. Regardless of the outcome, voters in California have made it clear that they believe state-sanctioned slavery is less of a threat to freedom than Donald Trump. The current status of Proposition 6 is a perfect illustration of how deeply misguided the modern liberal agenda is and how its self-avowed commitment to fighting for freedom is nothing more than demagogic rhetoric aimed toward a voting block whose sense of superiority demonstrates why its hubris has led to its downfall.