California is still wrestling with its affordability crisis and has a gas price catastrophe hanging over the state’s future. California Democrats, meanwhile, are focused on letting murderers out of jail early.

The California State Senate voted 24-11 to pass the “Youth Rehabilitation and Opportunity Act.” That whitewashed title is for a bill that would allow convicted murderers who were sentenced to life without parole to receive parole, so long as they committed murder between the ages of 18 and 25. In other words, grown adults 25 and under will be treated like children by the criminal justice system in California, even if they are cold-blooded murderers.

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Fear not, though, because there are exceptions. One such exception applies to people who murder elected officials. California Democrats deem that they are more important than the peasants in their state. A 25-year-old who murders a legislator will still get life without parole. A 25-year-old who murders a farmer, a cashier, or a stay-at-home mom? They will be allowed to walk free at some point because they are not as important as politicians, according to California’s Democratic politicians.

This is apparently a top priority for California Democrats right now, as even they recognize that their policies will destroy the state’s oil and gas industry and lead to a massive hike in gas prices (and carbon emissions). This bill will almost certainly pass the state assembly, and then the early release of murderers will be subject to the whims of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and his future electoral ambitions.

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This is the failed ideology of California Democrats, which has helped run the state into the ground. Ignore real crises, caused by your own destructive policies, and find out what the best way to help criminals get out of jail sooner would be, as criminals are victims of an unfair system of “mass incarceration.” But don’t forget to grant yourself special protections that don’t apply to everyday Californians. California is governed by liberal elites, for liberal elites, after all.

That letting adult murderers get parole is even a consideration of the legislature is proof of how little California Democrats care for the state’s residents. California Democrats care more about letting murderers out of jail than they do about preventing gas from costing $10 a gallon or helping residents afford groceries. And this will continue as long as Californians vote for Democrats on autopilot every election cycle.