California wants to do WHAT?!

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California Democrats have gone full crazy. Never go full crazy. Most residents of the state are Democrats because sane people have fled to red states, or are trying to figure out how they can flee and how soon. It’s often said California leads the nation in bold, new trends, and they’re certainly ahead in Democrat lunacy, like this:

Graphic: X Post. He looks a bit unhinged, doesn't he?

I’m something of a history buff, and I don’t recall forcing mentally ill Aryan boys on Aryan girls was a feature of the Nazis, but if California Democrats say it, it must be true-- in their version of reality.

All politicians are prone to cry “we must do it for the children” when their plans are indefensible and unhinged, but Democrats have elevated the tactic to an art form. And now, California leads again. They’ve elevated it to utter derangement:

Assembly Bill 1967 is moving through the California Legislature with barely a ripple of public attention. The bill, authored by LGBTQ rights activist-turned-Assemblymember Rick Zbur, would allow children of any age to initiate state dependency proceedings against their own parents. The parents will not even know this has happened until the die is already cast.

That’s right. California wants kids to be able to divorce their parents. Without cause. After all, if they’re sufficiently mature and responsible to demand surgical mutilation, AKA “gender affirming care,” why wouldn’t they be capable of understanding the consequences of divorcing their parents?

The bill allows any minor residing in any residential facility to file a legal application against their parents, without cause or evidence of harm.

Residential facilities include drug rehabilitation programs, boarding schools, wilderness therapy programs, faith-based residential programs, and runaway shelters. It does not matter whether the facility is safe and an appropriate placement chosen by the parents. The child can petition the court to strip the parents of custodial authority and substitute county child welfare control or foster placement. The application need not be corroborated by any adult and need not be served on the parents. The child’s statement alone is sufficient to trigger a mandatory assessment of the parents’ home. This assessment can occur without the parents’ knowledge.
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But of course! And does anyone imagine this won’t be quickly updated to allow any child not in a residential facility to do the same? I wonder if there might be other motivations involved? After all, Communist doctrine requires taking control of the young and properly indoctrinating them. Parents are merely sperm and egg donors and biological incubators. Children belong to the state. And yes, there’s a non-profit connection:

Government control over children is only one purpose of AB 1967. The second is financial. Once the county takes custody of the child, it is almost certain that he will be removed from the parent-directed residential facility. Detained children must be placed in an AFDC-FC-eligible nonprofit facility, foster care home, or institution. This requirement creates a direct financial incentive for nonprofits and their affiliated attorneys to facilitate the child’s transfer into county-approved placements.
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A nonprofit can receive up to $17,616 per month in state and federal funding for a short-term residential therapeutic placement. Meanwhile, the parent faces a long, expensive legal battle to regain custody. Under California law, as many as 60 days can pass before the parents have a meaningful opportunity to contest the allegations at a disposition hearing, and up to 18 months before final resolution of the dependency. Throughout that period, the county controls where the child lives, what therapeutic program he receives, and how often his parents may see him.

But wait a minute! Surely this would never pass the California Legislature, surely the Governor would never sign such a lunatic abomination, and surely no judge would uphold such a society-destroying, anti-American law! Hang on while I quit laughing and get up off the floor. We’re talking about California, Gavin Newsom, and don’t call me Shirley.

Most California judges have been appointed because they absolutely will uphold this sort of thing regardless of the law or bare sanity. The Legislature is entirely Democrat-dominated and is even more Islamist/Marxist/looney than the national Democrat Party. They’re trailblazers there too. Newsom might veto it to help his presidential campaign, but knows Democrats have supermajorities in the Legislature. They’d override any veto.

Such an insane, destructive idea would likely be eventually overturned in the Federal courts, but this is yet another sobering slap upside the head to the rest of America. California isn’t like us. They’re not remotely normal or sane, and things are eventually going to explode.

We just have to make sure we’re not in the blast radius.

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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.