[Trentamj]

Vic is never going to get that job on the California Tourist Promotion Board: Just saying.

[rightwingcrazy]

“Abstract idealism on behalf of the distant is a powerful psychological narcotic that allows caring progressives to dull the guilt they feel about their own privilege and riches.”

They also do it to keep the rabble from smashing down their gates. “Progressivism” transforms a robber baron into a humanitarian, or so’s the plan.

[BobL]

Wow. What’s so classy about this guy is the way he’s able to translate political ‘ideals’ (and I use that term loosely) in to the real-life hells they create. He’s there at Ground Zero and letting the world know about it.

[Osage Orange]

I lived in O.C. and Riverside, Co.....

Very glad I left....

V.D.H. is awesome.....

[Organic Panic]

The other side of the Coastal Range does not exist for the coastals. All they know is “That’s where Lupita’s family picks grapes.” They don’t care about regulations because they write them. they don’t care about taxes because they minimize them. They don’t care about immigration because they benefit. They don’t care about irrigation because Whole Foods always has stocked shelves. They don’t care about crime because they have gates. They don’t care about gas prices because their tesla is a plug in. They don’t care about energy policy because the light switch always works. BUT they will go apecrap about some rat in an ag field in Fresno.

“Fresno??? Who cares about Fresno?”

[Riley]

The elite coastal strip appreciates California’s bifurcated two-class reality, at least in the way that the lords of the Middle Ages treasured their era’s fossilized divisions. Manoralism ensured that peasants remained obedient, dependent, and useful serfs; meanwhile, the masters praised their supposedly enlightened feudal system even as they sought exemptions for their sins from the medieval Church. And without a middle class, the masters had no fear that uncouth others would want their own scaled-down versions of castles and moats.

Dead on.

[Clintonfatigued]

California is what Hillary Clinton and her supporters wanted the nation to be like. We dodged a bullet.

[Chickensoup]

Jim get out while their is time!