I’ll take it one step further, being an ex Californian. Your friend probably voted for Newsome, Gascon and Garcetti, Harris etc etc. I have friends who did that. The lack of self reflection is astounding. The desire to “feel virtuous” hence feel so good about voting for these types of politicians and the political clap trap coming out of…
I’ll take it one step further, being an ex Californian. Your friend probably voted for Newsome, Gascon and Garcetti, Harris etc etc. I have friends who did that. The lack of self reflection is astounding. The desire to “feel virtuous” hence feel so good about voting for these types of politicians and the political clap trap coming out of their mouths overwhelms those portions of the brain that deal in rational thought and problem solving. I’m not trying to be funny here.
As a not-yet-ex-Californian, sounds about right. And the problem is that this state is squeezing the middle class out with increasing speed. What will be left are the super wealthy, the smug virtue signaling upper middle class, and the dirt poor. All of which explains why California can boast a multitude of billionaires yet has the highest poverty rate in the US (17.2%, Supplemental Poverty Measure* [2017-2019 average]). I'm a native Californian and 64 years old. I NEVER thought I'd see the day California, once the most vibrant and trend setting in the nation, would turn into such a feudal state. I won't be here much longer.
* Supplemental Poverty Measure takes into account differences in cost of living between states (i.e. housing costs appreciably higher/lower than the national average) as well as taxes and the value of government assistance programs. All data are from the United States Census Bureau. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_poverty_rate
Couldn’t agree with you more. I think the woke idiot democrats are literally making California the world’s biggest Ponzi scheme. When you keep replacing the paying customers who are leaving with illegals who don’t pay, there will come a tipping point. The number of California license plates in north western Montana this year is incredible.
It just makes me sick. The natural beauty and weather are second to none. But it's all being spoiled. I was born and have lived my entire life in San Diego county. I cant tell you just how bad it feels to have my home go from someplace I love to such a disgusting mess. Like I said, I won't be here much longer.
I've lived in New England for my whole life and feel a similar way.
It's such a nice place to live and the majority of people are great, so it's really just baffling that our political situation is always such a clusterfuck.
" it's really just baffling that our political situation is always such a clusterfuck. "
This is because We, The People are not in control, and the oligarchs have learned how to completely "game the system" - well, one key to that is to write the rules the way they want!
We need Progressive policies like never before, and its urgent. But even what the media errantly calls "Progressive" usually isn't! Progressives gave us the 5 day work week, 8 hour work day, etc, and aspire to helping us all have a living wage for full time work, universal access to health care and other steps of, you know, _Progress,_ ... not toppling of statues and arguing over gender pronouns. (Those latter people are neo-liberals, _not_ Progressives, by the way.)
Amen. As an ex-Californian myself another reason I left was the increase in crime. In a two year period they tried to burglarize my house 3 times, being successful the third time. After they relieved me of all my belongings I had enough. I had read in the San Jose Merc about a year or so before all this that the police were no longer pursuing these property crimes and burglaries skyrocketed. Shortly after on my street you would see these ADT signs in the lawns of every house on my block. Things have got worse since I left as I understand it. Such a shame.
So have you taken the pledge to just walk away from the D party and never vote for any D, no matter how "reasonable," ever again? If not, you are still a part of the problem.
I recall thinking during the "Schiff Show" that it was obvious the man is insanely sure of his own lies and that people could also see how deranged he is. I was very wrong. He still has many fans and voters that find him a stellar truth teller. I've come to learn that denial is not ignorance, but a choice.
I’ll take it one step further, being an ex Californian. Your friend probably voted for Newsome, Gascon and Garcetti, Harris etc etc. I have friends who did that. The lack of self reflection is astounding. The desire to “feel virtuous” hence feel so good about voting for these types of politicians and the political clap trap coming out of their mouths overwhelms those portions of the brain that deal in rational thought and problem solving. I’m not trying to be funny here.
As a not-yet-ex-Californian, sounds about right. And the problem is that this state is squeezing the middle class out with increasing speed. What will be left are the super wealthy, the smug virtue signaling upper middle class, and the dirt poor. All of which explains why California can boast a multitude of billionaires yet has the highest poverty rate in the US (17.2%, Supplemental Poverty Measure* [2017-2019 average]). I'm a native Californian and 64 years old. I NEVER thought I'd see the day California, once the most vibrant and trend setting in the nation, would turn into such a feudal state. I won't be here much longer.
* Supplemental Poverty Measure takes into account differences in cost of living between states (i.e. housing costs appreciably higher/lower than the national average) as well as taxes and the value of government assistance programs. All data are from the United States Census Bureau. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_poverty_rate
Couldn’t agree with you more. I think the woke idiot democrats are literally making California the world’s biggest Ponzi scheme. When you keep replacing the paying customers who are leaving with illegals who don’t pay, there will come a tipping point. The number of California license plates in north western Montana this year is incredible.
It just makes me sick. The natural beauty and weather are second to none. But it's all being spoiled. I was born and have lived my entire life in San Diego county. I cant tell you just how bad it feels to have my home go from someplace I love to such a disgusting mess. Like I said, I won't be here much longer.
I've lived in New England for my whole life and feel a similar way.
It's such a nice place to live and the majority of people are great, so it's really just baffling that our political situation is always such a clusterfuck.
" it's really just baffling that our political situation is always such a clusterfuck. "
This is because We, The People are not in control, and the oligarchs have learned how to completely "game the system" - well, one key to that is to write the rules the way they want!
We need Progressive policies like never before, and its urgent. But even what the media errantly calls "Progressive" usually isn't! Progressives gave us the 5 day work week, 8 hour work day, etc, and aspire to helping us all have a living wage for full time work, universal access to health care and other steps of, you know, _Progress,_ ... not toppling of statues and arguing over gender pronouns. (Those latter people are neo-liberals, _not_ Progressives, by the way.)
Progressive is just a nice way of saying Marxist
Yes, for the propagandists it is.
The practical "propagandists."
Amen. As an ex-Californian myself another reason I left was the increase in crime. In a two year period they tried to burglarize my house 3 times, being successful the third time. After they relieved me of all my belongings I had enough. I had read in the San Jose Merc about a year or so before all this that the police were no longer pursuing these property crimes and burglaries skyrocketed. Shortly after on my street you would see these ADT signs in the lawns of every house on my block. Things have got worse since I left as I understand it. Such a shame.
So have you taken the pledge to just walk away from the D party and never vote for any D, no matter how "reasonable," ever again? If not, you are still a part of the problem.
I am not part of the problem. I am not a D.
I wish I was a recovering Californian….
I wish I could recover the California of my youth.
I recall thinking during the "Schiff Show" that it was obvious the man is insanely sure of his own lies and that people could also see how deranged he is. I was very wrong. He still has many fans and voters that find him a stellar truth teller. I've come to learn that denial is not ignorance, but a choice.