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What If Robert Stark Ran For California Governor In 2026?

Hypothetical 2026 Gubernatorial Platform

CA State Basic Income

-Eligibility: all adult US Citizens who have been California residents for at least 3 years

-Funded by a tech dividend tax on big tech, automation of inefficient state bureaucracy, cap on state employee pensions, an oil extraction tax, and consolidation of non-healthcare CA state benefits, including those to illegal immigrants who would not be eligible for UBI

-Direct cash payout generated by revenue from above sources issued via a new state bank

(UBI makes Californians shareholders in the State, as it is not a means tested welfare program. Since it is harder for immigrants to receive, it makes being a citizen of California something special. If the US dollar crashes, California needs an alternative currency that is backed by resources, such as energy sources, agricultural output, or even just our remarkable geography and weather.)

State Bank

-Proposal for a new state bank to fund infrastructure projects with low interest rates

-Bank would also provide low interest loans for citizens, entrepreneurs, and small businesses

Jobs & Economy

-Establish a jobs database, a public private partnership, that uses algorithms to pair job seekers with employment based upon compatibility, specialized skills, and personality traits

-Tax incentives to relocate jobs to affordable regions that lack high paying jobs

-Reform regulations and the licensing process to empower the self-employed and entrepreneurs

-Enact legislation to protect work from home in the private sector

Taxation & Budget

-Demand that California get back as much from the federal government that it pays out in taxes

-Establish a progressive business tax; highest on multi-national corporations but very low on the self-employed, small businesses and new startups

-Generous income tax relief for the middle class, and for families across class lines, for state income and property taxation

(While I am not a radical natalist, California is so anti-family and has one of the lowest birthrates in the Nation. The Left is hostile toward any natalism unless it is geared to welfare for the very poor and find anything geared toward the middle or upper class fascist eugenics.)

-property taxes should factor in income and household size (eg. house rich and cash poor and large families, even if wealthy, get relief)

-property taxes should be fair to seniors on fixed income, but not subsidize ultra-wealthy seniors either

(We need to have an honest conversation about the intergenerational wealth gap while also being fair to seniors.)

-tax cuts offset by property tax increases on mega mansions, vacancies, underutilized properties, and on corporate/Wall Street ownership of residential properties

-Strengthen protection of inheritance in California’s constitution except for the ultra wealthy

(I support a version of DOGE for California, though it should be much more carefully planned out. At the very least, there should be a freeze on all new non-essential public employees. Separate positions that add value as opposed to those that are just political patronage networks, including DEI type positions. You also have to ask why the AI bubble is so massive with NVIDIA’s net worth more than many first world’s nations GDP’s yet California is having budget problems.)

Tort Reform

-Reform tort to protect individuals, families, and small businesses from frivolous lawsuits but not for corporations

Healthcare

-Expand Medi-Cal coverage and make it more efficient

-Find solutions to limit the middle man in both public and private healthcare

-Enact regulations against price gauging in insurance

-Allow illegal immigrants to receive healthcare but tax foreign remittance to reimburse costs to Medi-Cal

-Promote mental and physical health, incentivizing fitness, a sense of community, walkable communities, and healthy food (eg. support for community gardens) with the added benefit of reducing costs for healthcare and mental health

-Promote fitness and healthy food in schools

Infrastructure

-Invest in mass transit, including subways, revive and finish high speed rail, and propose a direct coastal rail connection from LA to SF

-Invest in alternative energy sources including solar and consider nuclear, taking into account seismic zones

-invest in maintaining our reservoirs and in desalination to meet water demands

-Upgrade electrical grids and enforce regulations to prevent wildfires and rolling blackouts

-Use AI drone technology for wildfire prevention

Housing/Zoning Reform

-Tax incentives and guidelines to build walkable communities, including bans on zoning laws that inhibit pedestrian friendly development (eg. parking minimums)

-Mandate that new development include communal spaces and larger units to accommodate families

-Allow single family zoning in suburbia under the condition the number of families stays above a certain threshold

Make Bohemianism Great Again! Make it possible to live in cities for smart people without much money (young graduates, would-be artists, etc)

-Implement a statewide greenbelt to limit sprawl and create ecologically sustainable communities

-Create special enterprise zones to experiment with liberalizing zoning laws

-Grant state properties, including universities and civic centers but excluding any protected lands and historic sites, immunity from zoning laws

-Zone certain areas for only small businesses that restrict corporate chains

-Reform zoning to make it easier to build recreational amenities and private schools and homeschooling co-opts in residential areas

-Incentivize the construction of new resorts and theme parks to encourage tourism and create a culture of fun and leisure

(I parted ways with the YIMBY movement a few years back and no longer identity as a YIMBY. However, I am basically a moderate YIMBY in that I support targeted up zoning but not abolishing single family zoning all together. I’d rather focus on a positive message of building aesthetically pleasing walkable communities than talk about punishing the suburbs for leftist equity reasons. I want to link cancel culture to sterile minimalist renovations, so if governor, I would sign an executive order opposing minimalist renovations of public spaces.)

Civic Beatification Projects

-Civic beautification projects which includes planting trees across California

-Sponsor public arts and monument projects to create iconic new landmarks that celebrate California’s exceptionalism and identity

(There was this era in California in the early 20th Century where we had these grand projects like the Golden Gate Bridge and the Panama Pacific International Expo, and even with all our wealth we lack that vision today.)

Arts & Media

-Create a new cultural renaissance to make California the Florence of the 21st Century

-Grant artists a greater role in the economy, tech sector, and urban planning via a public private partnership

-Set up local media stations (radio, TV, and film production) open to all viewpoints

-Establish quotas requiring media corporations to allocate funding and slots on streaming sites for independent filmmakers

(Hollywood has been destroyed by woke culture on the surface but it is more that corporate managerial culture and gate keeping is stifling creativity. We need to build a parallel Hollywood and Silicon Valley that is true to open creativity and innovation.)

Agriculture

-Economic incentives for small scale family farms with higher taxation on corporate agriculture

-Plan to phase out factory farming over a 5-year period

-Stricter animal welfare laws for livestock

Race Relations

-Have an honest discussion that as a “minority” majority state, America’s majoritarian dialectic is obsolete

-Offer an alternative to policies based upon divisive Critical Race Theory in favor of a new pluralist vision that respects true diversity (eg. right to form ethnic based student unions in secondary and higher education for all groups)

-Platinum Plans for all; creating specialized versions for European Americans, African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans, tailored to each group’s specific needs and concerns

-Honor diversity by establishing a Neighborhood Freedom Amendment in the California State Constitution to empower communities and enclaves within our multi-cultural mosaic

-Propose a compromise to allow for sanctuary cities in exchange for freedom of association

(Since all other groups have their political advocacy, young Whites need a voice in California, without being antagonistic or discriminatory to other groups. I am against CRT and wokenes but just being against that is insufficient, so you must stand for something better. California is the best testing ground for this new multiculturalism. I would like to see if it is possible to find common ground between woke, colorblind, and white grievances to form a new ideology rather than endless polarization.)

Canton System

-Propose a Swiss inspired Canton model for granting regions of California a degree of autonomy on policy

-Cantons could be on a county level or by sub regions of a county

-Have people take quizzes based on politics and personal needs and propose packages that could be adopted and suited to the results of each regions

(Since California is so diverse, it needs specialized policies crafted to each demographic and sub region.)

Internet bill of Rights

-Guarantee the right to free speech by recognizing social media as the town square of the 21st Century

-Guarantee the right to privacy and ownership of personal tech data

Social Capital

-Use levels of social capital, personal wellbeing, and mental health as a metric of success for California

-Promote local social events that foster social capital

-Voluntary exchange program where people socialize with people across different racial, social status, age, and class backgrounds (a dualism where we separate but then come together to find common bonds)

(There also needs to be more discussion of psycho-social needs in politics.)

Reverse out-migration

-Lost Californians initiative that includes tax breaks for anyone born in California, or who can prove Californian ancestry, to return, to help foster a California identity

-Tax incentives to move to California and extend in-state tuition costs at Universities to the rest of the nation to attract out of state talent

(We have to recolonize California with Americans)

Criminal Justice

-Find the right balance between public safety and support for law enforcement and protection of civil liberties

-Greater funding for mental health and crisis management and community policing programs

-Oppose surveillance by federal agencies that violates the rights of California citizens

-Use AI to reduce violence and misconduct in prisons.

-Specialized classification system using algorithms to address inmate’s specific needs, including rehabilitation programs

-Encourage meditation in prisons

-Legalize the therapeutic use of psychedelics

-Legalize and regulate sex work

(To clarify for legalizing sex work, I get the argument that sex work is class oppression and exploitative, especially if the johns are the one’s receiving oral. Thus, it should be focused on providing incels opportunities to go down on attractive women, either as sex work or as therapeutic. I also think the criminal code should be harsher on oral tops than bottoms which also trolls low in openness conservatives.)

Homelessness

-Provide housing, healthcare and mental health for the homeless, but remove encampments and make it mandatory that homeless move into provided housing

(While Newsom’s Project Room Key helped somewhat alleviate homelessness, it destroyed the motel industry in many places while creating a limited amount of new beds for the homeless. Not to mention all the waste on subsidizing corrupt non profits for the homeless. It would make more sense to build high-rise public housing for the homeless on county and civic center sites.)

Marriage

-Privatize marriage with contracts

Education

-Expand school choice with vouchers to cover the cost of private education and homeschooling for all citizens regardless of income

-Propose legislation to make it easier to break up failed large urban school districts

-Greater partnerships between the education system and communities including apprenticeship programs with local businesses

-Specialization in secondary education with personalized programs geared towards each student’s personal, academic and education needs and career goals

-Encourage meditation in schools

Higher Education

-Tax endowments and use AI to reduce the size of educational bureaucracy to cut tuition costs

-Greatly expand college enrollment

-Greater integration between The UC system, Cal State system, City Colleges, extension programs, and with local communities

-Implement alternatives to credentialism with independent study and research programs open to those with specialized skills or talents and/or savant intelligence

-Make parapsychology a major of study in universities

-Use and expand City College enrollment to attract students from across the nation and abroad for the “College experience” to help revitalize smaller cities and urban districts into college towns

I am not declaring a campaign nor do I have any plans to run for California governor, so this is purely a hypothetical and speculative. The only scenario in which I would run would be if there were an outpouring of people wanting me to run and a major financial backer, which is highly unlikely. I seriously considered running for governor during the recall, but more as performance art. In 2010, I considered running for State Assembly against Mike Feuer in LA, and even had a campaign website, Stark for Assembly, or Stark for Ass as my friend

would say.

I’ve volunteered for campaigns in this past, going back to Ron Paul, so I am very cynical about independent campaigns. Basically, it is a lot of work with little results, even with significant financial backing. However, if I were to run, I cannot be blackmailed by the globalist illuminati reptilians or whoever you think runs things because my most unhinged takes and fetishes are already out in the open.

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As for the candidates running, I don’t find conservative, Steve Hilton, objectionable but I don’t find him that interesting or inspiring either. Conservative, Chad Bianco is fine as sheriff, but he has fairly conventional conservative views, more so than Hilton even. I’d more likely support Rick Caruso, if he were to run, who unlike these conservative candidates, as a billionaire centrist, actually stands a chance. I respect that he builds actual physical public spaces, even if his developments are somewhat tacky. I’d also consider supporting Transhumanist, Zoltan Istvan, who I voted for the last time he ran.

I am open to voting for Kyle Langford, but more as a middle finger to the political system, as he is way too the right of me and stands no chance. Langford is the only candidate willing to talk about White interests in California but the Groyper/Nazi stuff totally tarnishes that and is just terrible optics. Ironically, much of Langford’s support is from young Latino men much like Nick Fuentes.

I would love to debate Langford about his proposal of deporting illegal immigrants but letting the women stay if they agree to marry California incels. I am not even against him proposing that but it sounds more fascistic while my proposal of incels going down on attractive upper class coded women comes across as de-radicalization. Langford would probably say his proposal is compatible with Catholic values because they are married to the illegal woman while an incel licking an upper class coded female vagina or anus is sinful and degenerate, as I am theosophical.

Gabe Guidarini said my original platform was populist (center populism) with a touch of neoliberal technocracy, which may seem like an odd combo. My estimate of the demographics I would do the best among are the White working class, albeit secular, Obama to Trump voters in Northern California, like Lake County, and Grey Tribe White tech bros in Silicon Valley. I could also appeal to independent dissident right types who are not super MAGA, non woke Bernie bros, new agey types who backed RFK Jr., and possibly some young Latino male independents. I don’t think basic conservative MAGA types would support me as I am fairly critical of MAGA, even though I am willing to ally with them on certain issues. Affluent White centrists with families are probably too conformist to support someone like me.

I propose a new political ideology that is unique for California’s independent leaning demographic. I declare that the core principles for this new California ideology are radical free speech (zero tolerance for cancelers), radical creativity, freedom of association, true diversity, and specialization based approaches to education, the economy, and race relations. Disneyland which is part of California’s mythos, epitomizes that pluralist vision of true freedom where every group can have their own utopia.

The policies of the Democrats and Republicans in Calfuironia are tailored to national issues and not to California issues that have long been neglected. However, people say they want a centrist alternative to conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats but the way they vote does not show that. Trump’s failures and incompetence are only strengthening Democratic partisanship in California.

I am tired of hearing candidates only talk about economic or social wedge issues, thus I want to make social capital, fun and creativity issues. California already has one of the World’s highest GDP’s but I want to make it the most exiting and enchanted place on Earth and restore its vitality. California had this faustian or promethean spirit but has become stagnant in a managed decline. If my pluralist approach fails and the Left ruins California, then some fascist American regime will have to come in and clean up California, though I think Trump is too incompetent for that role.

California needs a spiritual revolution and I would be the new Marianne Williamson, albeit an un pc version, drawing inspiration from California’s history of eccentric religious sects, as the mythos of California has a metaphysical component. As an artist, artist should govern California rather than bureaucrats or the corporate managerial class. Not to mention that I have ancestors going back to the early 20th Century in LA and the late 19th Century in Northern California, thus I am best suited to speak on behalf of Californians.

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