Started lurking in '98 and with the help of Free Republic, I've escaped from my liberal family's clutches. Though my husband and I have both lived in the SF Bay Area our entire lives, we are suffocating from the ultra-PC environment around here. When humanly possible, we are going to escape California, as well.

My favorite author is Thomas Sowell and his books Race & Culture, Migrations and Culture, Conquests and Culture and The Vision of the Annointed. They are a much-needed breath of fresh air. They were very insightful.

I'm on a continual search for the truth (or a close facsimile) and Free Republic has been a tremendous tool. In 2021, after living our entire lives in the SF Bay Area, we escaped the belly of the beast it was a constant battle of right v. wrong, good v. bad, up v. down, black v. white......very challenging. We moved to the Sierra Foothills. The lemonade out of the pandemic lemon is the ability to telecommute since my husbands job is tied to staying in Kali. In our opinion, the Lilliputians in Sacramento are continuing to ruin this state with SB50 and SB9, for starters. We keep thinking that people will actually wake up here but, it doesn't look like it.