There are eight million stories in the naked city...this has been one.
Left Coast bump for later.....
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.
Many people that live in Salinas and work in Monterey/Carmel have never bothered to drive the extra 5 minutes to the beach.
“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
California, overdue for its own anti-elitist movement, needs a mini-Trump.
Peter Thiel, anyone?
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.
“Hypocrisy, when coupled with sanctimoniousness, grates people like few other human transgressions.”
And proggies have been grating us for many decades. Karma, baby!
“Escape From LA” turns real without an earthquake.
We need to track and compile exemptocrat legislation.
Great post!
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.
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.
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.
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.
California will benefit most from a Trump presidency.
Ironic.
VDH is at his best, in my opinion, when he writes about the dichotomy between “coastal” and “inland” California, although in truth, it’s not exactly coast vs. inland, so much as it is enclaves of the elites vs. the rest of the state. Life in San Francisco’s Tenderloin or LA’s Skid Row is even more desperate and depraved than the rural Central Valley areas he described, and parts of Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Palm Springs, etc., are inland, but share far more similarities with “La Jolla and Atherton” than they do with “Modesto and Mendota”.
Another Classic by VDH. He nails the situation completely.
The headline shown for this article is only a partial headline. It states “Coastal elites set rules for others and exempt themselves.” Actually, the headline goes onto say “and tolerate lawlessness from illegal aliens”
This last phrase in the headline is probably more important to the quality of life in California than the first phrase. This lawlessness is the “Soft Bigotry” which George W Bush used to talk about. Lawlessness and lack of enforcement is destroying our state. Democrats accept this as a way to obtain favor and votes from illegals and other lawbreaking persons who are of course located far away fro their privilidged elite areas.
