Posted on 12/02/2018 8:13:11 AM PST by Allen In Texas Hill Country
Anyway, its goodbye America, not Calif.
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He is correct about everything but I don’t like his attitude. With that kinda mentality, his state or wherever he is moving to is next.
Kudos to whoever is willing to remake conservatism in California, perhaps even running as independents in future elections without the GOP moniker —as many Californians are registered with neither party.
Kudos to those who recognize the strides made in the area of the California pro-life movement and the growth of powerful L.A. and San Diego churches preaching the Gospel and serving whole swaths of the demographic.
Sounds juuust like Victor Davis Hansen.
Ah Texas? Yes Texas is definitely next. So many Californiana are moving there including liberals. Can’t just keep picking up and leaving. Someone has to stay the course and fight eek.
Thank goodness for CA or else my state would have the highest voting percentage for hillary!!
That 38 percent of NYers are still sane actually shocks me.
58 went to hillary.
So a 10 percent change is needed for Trump to in NY in 2020.
Difficult, but not impossible.
OK. Impossible :(
That 4 out of 10 of us still love the country very much makes me at least DREAM of the day an R can carry NY again.
CA at 32 percent for Trump.
61 for hillary.
A 15 percent swing is almost out of the question.
YUP..!
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“...perhaps even running as independents in future elections without the GOP moniker...”
Yes. ‘Republican’ is neither conservative, patriotic, Godly nor Constitutional.
If ever there was a time for a new party to represent us, it is now. It’s not the loosely defined and questionable T.E.A. party. Another thread asked what a new conservative party should be named.
Otherwise the insanity simply spreads to the U.S. as a whole and the entire country goes down the crapper.
California is depending on Uncle Sugar bailing them out.
San Francisco is the sewer since their streets are used as.
California is already a colony of Mexico.
Their officials refuse to protect American citizens from fraudulently documented foreigners and protect Mexicans from US laws.
If Democrats keep moving to Arizona, Texas and Florida those will be the next ruins. They are like locusts, they destroy everything in their path. I used to pray we could all get along together, now I just want them all to move to California and we can Wall them off to keep them from polluting the rest of the country.
Progressives are a socialist disease to States.
Californians are ruining Texas. It’s nuts, but they start voting for people who represent what they left. I’ll never understand it but I think they basically think California has it right, but that the wrong people came to be in charge.
My big hope/fantasy is that every filthy politician responsible for this debacle meets justice at the end of a rope.
Yes, let’s suggest more Californians move to Texas, where they are continuing the vote the same way they did back home, as evidenced by the shift in the last several election cycles.
While explaining the deficiencies and downfall of California is a useful introspection to attempt to avoid repeating the same mistakes in the future, the suggested solutions to the problem will only exacerbate and speed the downfall of the entire country.
Recently I wrote Abbott with a plea to stop inviting every business in the country to move to Texas, that Perry initiated destruction of the state, that we should make it more painful for liberals to live here, and to do something to educate our population (PSAs or otherwise) on what it means to be Texan. If you’re a true Texan, I suggest strongly that you do the same. Educate your neighbors and friends. Ceaselessly point out the failures of the California model. Point out why handing money to beggars on every corner only serves to ensure they remain there.
Sadly, the writer is correct. When we moved to California, it had a Republican Senator and a Republican Governor. Motor-voter killed California. You haven’t had to show ID to vote in two decades. I loved living there for the activities and the beauty, but with two good incomes we were still counting our pennies. Having left for a more sensible state, I still love visiting there, but am glad I don’t have to anymore deal with the stress of daily life. I used to tell people that life is cheap in California. The crime was terrible when we lived there and it has gotten exponentially worse. I was aquaintenced with 3 people who were murdered, over our 20 year stay. So sad, but California sets it’s own path. More’s the pity.
California’s GDP is $2.7 trillion.
The California GDP Is greater than the United Kingdom’s GDP and a trillion dollars greater than the Texas GDP.
California is not Third World.
It’s pretty inaccurate. We shouldn’t fool ourselves into believing that California is a “Third World” country because of the traffic and thousands of homeless people encamped around its various cities. No, California is still an incredibly wealthy place, offering a very high quality of life for the select few that can actually afford it. With respect to the traffic, I challenge the author to drive from the international airport to the downtown center of any major (10M+) city in the world, and get there in less than an hour and park their car for less than $30.
There are a few square miles of urban real estate such as Skid Row and the Tenderloin, where there are thousands of homeless people, and it’s absolutely disgusting, but there are thousands of square miles of pleasant suburban, rustic rural and gentrified urban real estate all over the state where you wouldn’t ever see any of that. You just have to pay a pretty penny for it!
I’m not in any way downplaying the stupidity and depravity of the people who currently run this state, nor am I making any kind of statement of how things are in California relative to other parts of the country. I’m just saying that anyone who thinks that people who live in Brentwood, or Pasadena, or Pacific Heights, or Palo Alto, or any of a thousand other places are living in “Third World” conditions needs to have their head examined.
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