I generally have tried to temper my comments, keeping in mind that even in the bluest states, there are solid conservatives who deserve our support, help, and even compassion. I made a point of not even joking about “The Big One” that will cause the land of fruit and nuts to fall into the ocean.
Being from a blue state myself, not hard to do.
The vitriol one sees from red states regarding this on FR is amazing to me.
“The vitriol one sees from red states regarding this on FR is amazing to me.”
I appreciate what you say. I was born in California in 1940, and save a couple of years where my mother and I moved to Utah to live with my fathers relatives while he was in Australia serving in the US Navy, I’ve been here all my life. And I can tell you that I consider it my life’s greatest positive experience to have been able to grow up here in the 1950’s and 60’s. California was ( and in many respects still is) an amazing place. Unfortunately WWII brought us the seeds of our current destruction, in the form of workers for the war materiel producers. When the war ended, they stayed and formed the nucleus of the welfare recipients since the jobs for which they came went away and there really wasn’t anything for them to do. But hey, California is such a nice place, why go back to the South where the weather is the $hits, right. We had a guest worker program for Mexican nationals to come here and work in agriculture, which was then our biggest business. But the Feds stopped that which started the illegal migration because the state’s needs and the Mexican workers needs were still there. So our demise has been at the collective hands of the Federal Government, a state government becoming the exclusive province of the RATS, and the steady influx of trash from south of the border.
To those “red state pontiffs,” I would say the following: If you don’t like what’s been happening here in California, I’d suggest you start looking around your own nest for the same seeds that were sowed here a generation or more ago. Further, you had better hope that somehow we recover from our current problems, because what has happened here is spreading and you can’t continue to move away from the problem. So rather than sitting there “clucking” about how California should drop into the Pacific, you had better hope we don’t, because Nevada will be next, and so on.