California: The Final Battle?

What makes the California gubernatorial campaign so nerve-tingling is that it might well prove the final battle in the Civil War now raging between the conservatives who fly the banner of individual freedom and the neo-Liberals who advocate a welfarist new world. This, as the movie hero used to say as he went over the top, this could be it.

Now I am rather painfully aware that I have spoken similarly before— but I maintain the dangers I warned of were not entirely imaginary.