It’s Still a Mad, Mad California: Coastal elites set rules for others and exempt themselves

National Review ^ | 01/03/2016 | Victor Davis Hanson

[RaginRak]

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Calexit can’t come soon enough

[sanjuanbob]

There are eight million stories in the naked city...this has been one.

[originalbuckeye]

We lived in SoCal for 20 years. We left 8 years ago. When we first arrived, we loved it. It is the most beautiful state. By the time we left, we had suffered credit card fraud 15 times in 5 years. Our neighbors had no conscience about the noise and barking dog decibels next to our zero lot line home. A man kicked in the side of my car because he didn't like the way I was backing up (I was doing so, safely, as I had a back up camera). I got his license plate number, but the cops didn't do anything because his DL picture didn't fit my description of the perp. I had been acquaintenced with 3 people who had actually been murdered. And we were struggling with the high cost of living and of regulations every month. I came to the conclusion that life is very cheap in California. And nothing much happens when you do break the law. We love going back to visit, but yes, don't use your credit cards much of anywhere. The fraud is rampant.

[indthkr]

Left Coast bump for later.....

[TTFlyer]

Mr. Hanson, the California of our youth died a long time ago. It has become a Liberal-Leftist insane asylum. My advice to you: Get out.

[muleskinner]

Another example - the gang banger hell-hole of Salinas vs Carmel. They are 20 miles apart, but might as well be 200.

Many people that live in Salinas and work in Monterey/Carmel have never bothered to drive the extra 5 minutes to the beach.

[BwanaNdege]

“Tune in, Turn on, Drop out!” was California’s mantra.

Left Brain - more logical, analytical, and objective
Right Brain - more intuitive, thoughtful, and subjective
No Brain - Liberals/Democrats (although they do have an atrophied Right Brain)
Fried Brain - Drug Addled California Elites and Intelligentsia

[AZLiberty]

California, overdue for its own anti-elitist movement, needs a mini-Trump.

Peter Thiel, anyone?

[freedumb2003]

What makes the law-abiding leave California is not just the sanctimoniousness, the high taxes, or the criminality. It is always the insult added to injury.

That is EXACTLY is and why I left my birth home of over 5 decades. I work my butt off and watch as (back then) new taxes in the name of "fees" show up regularly and the liberal SJWs continue to make it clear that earning "higher income" is a crime, punishable by The State removing as much of that income (for NO return, mind you) as possible.

Eventually I said "you guys can f off" and voted with my feet. I am here in Dallas where, sadly, most of the ex-pats from California brought with them the same defective societal cancer gene with them and it is starting to infect Texas.

At least I am in reliably Conservative north of Dallas where the line to vote R is really long and D is nonexistent (something I never saw in California).

The more I read about California, the smarter I feel about leaving. I am waiting with bated Schadenfreude for their driver's licenses to be declared not valid for travel. The final insult.

[polymuser]

“Hypocrisy, when coupled with sanctimoniousness, grates people like few other human transgressions.”

And proggies have been grating us for many decades. Karma, baby!

[freedumb2003]

[Chuckster]

I grew up in SoCal in the late fifties and early sixties. You should have seen it then. Left to join the Army in 66. Came back in ‘70 and left forever in ‘77. I won’t even visit now, even though I still have family there.

[\/\/ayne]

“Escape From LA” turns real without an earthquake.

[momincombatboots]

We need to track and compile exemptocrat legislation.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Great post!

[tumblindice]

IMHO, VDH is the only writer left on NR worth reading.
And I’m curious to hear what Californians think.
Not the usual, “Well, we’re red and they’re blue ... “

For example, what’s going to happen, perhaps as soon as later this month when President Trump says, “Los Angeles, San Francisco—I’ve instructed my cabinet heads to suspend your federal funding due to continuing violations of US Code Title-8-1324a.”

https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-1907-title-8-usc-1324a-offenses

Oh yeah. And keep your powder dry.

[eyeamok]

In California, the neglect of the felony requires the rigid prosecution of the misdemeanor.

SO True, Here in the San Fernando Valley, Pacoima to be exact. There are 5 Sidewalk Restaurants, complete with Tables, Chairs, Menu’s,.. and a Waitress. All of this is setup on the SIDEWALK!!!, between here and the UPS warehouse, Not to mention the Hundreds and Hundreds of Businesses in Commercial Warehouses.

100% are ILLEGAL ALIENS, The Authorities have NOT Inspected or done a DAMNED thing about ANY OF IT in 4 years,and they REFUSE TO.

THEY ALL BELONG IN PRISON, The AUthorities that is.

[Billthedrill]

Sad, truly sad. I lived in San Diego for a time when I was in the Navy; baby Bro lives there now and it isn't light-years from the same place. And that used to be, from its military antecedents, a conservative town for California.

Yes, they're packing up for Idaho (and we Idahoans aren't all that happy about it). I have a long-time friend who has just moved up from Thousand Oaks and has noted sourly the correlation of firearms and civic safety. He isn't mocking the "when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" slogan anymore, he's lived through it.

The above will tell you all you need to know about the distribution of the Coastal Elite and who they vote for.

[Seruzawa]

Born Cal in 1948 in LA, moved to Utah in 1982. Never been sorry for one second. Cal is a shithole. Bums can set up a tent on your sidewalk. Nothing you can do about it. In the town I live in now no one locks their doors. Eff Cal.