I've been to Texas a few times to visit my wife's relatives. Hot and humid, yeah. But it was big- crossing it took a while, coming from California on I-10.
Unfortunately, California sets the pace for the rest of the country. What goes on here (statism, high taxes, police state) doesn't stay here- it migrates across the country. We used to be the world's fifth largest economy- today, we're the eigth. That's what liberalism has wrot for us, and by extension, is headed your way.
Matter of fact, if you want to go 'long' on where the country is headed, just look to us. We're about to raise taxes, again, to support our public union employees who are so essential to a Capitalist Economy. Now, that's capitalism you can be proud of!
I envy Texas' gun control- "use both hands". Ours is: "put your hands behind your back, you're under arrest" for being within two blocks of a loaded gun.
Our government stinks, our laws stink, our cops and courts stink, and our teachers stink and can't teach. What's not to love about California? Hey, we've drifted so far from the vision the founding fathers had that we ought to be an island. And if Mother Nature has her way with the San Andreas Fault, we just might be. As Texans, that's your only hope. Trust me.
I live with a Californian.
His Californian GF, recently came over for a visit. She seems to really like me so we had a good dinner all of us. She wanted to get to know me a bit better, seeing as I’d been her bf’s tenant for awhile.
She was your usual typical Californian. She threw out all his plastic dishes (including mine), to rid the house of evil plastic, etc. She said, and she believed that she could convert me to the CA way of life. She couldn’t understand why someone with such ‘impeccable’ liberal credentials would like it there in TX.
So we continued talking, I was enjoying this conversation, because I give off that impression that I’m some sort of liberal to most folks. Anyways, I start praising TX and the good stuff there. Then about halfway through, she cottons on and says, wait a minute.
You chose to live in TX - Austin, not because you’re liberal...
ding ding ding. We have a winner.
It was like seeing a light come on, and she was a bit taken back by that. Still firmly believing that CA was God’s gift to the world. The funny part.
I don’t make much money doing what I do, and she was concerned that I was just barely getting by. She asked why I wasn’t on food stamps, like all the folks in CA who are who are illegals etc.
I was like, ok, you’re a conservative! Welcome to the party. I told her, if you think you can make it in CA, you are mistaken. Life is far better in TX. But if you’re going to leave and leave the place to me, I ain’t gonna complain. But 5 years down the line, you heard it from me first. Come here, be with him, you’ll be ahead of the game.
But who knows? I should just encourage him to go so maybe I can get a good deal on this place.
“As Texans, that’s your only hope. Trust me.”
Sir, I’ve had an eventful life so far, that’s been so much fun. If there was hope for me that I would come over to this side, and have the chance to pass this joy onto other people, there’s hope for Californians too.
I speak of this as someone who quite enjoys Tex-Mex, fiesta, a Catholic who’s parish is half and half, etc. I am working on my spanish so that I can be better prepared.
I chose to come here rather than anywhere else in the country, because of the blessings in TX that you find nowhere else. TX will be the last place in the republic (partially because TX has it’s own culture that resists both CA and NY), and also because TX Mex folks are not like CA Mex folks.
There is no where else. Europe is doomed. Canada is doomed. Most of America is already underwater and is a sinking ship. TX? Well, when a third of all the jobs are in TX alone with job growth, that speaks volumes.
America has a substantial lead over the rest of the world, that lead is going to grow every year from here on out. That stretches out at least 50 years. You’re telling me that the greatest nation in the world can’t find some way to make that work for them?