CompVest wrote:I know it is easy to pick on California, but just because there are people there who are less then brillant by our standards should not lead to assuming the whole state is the same. I lived there for years and it is a beautiful state with wonderful friendly people that think the way we do. These people you don't hear about. They are not News worthy. I say don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
The whole state
isn't the same, but unfortunately, the intelligent minority is exactly that -
a minority - and they allow themselves to be bullied pretty good by the commie pinko fascist hard left Dems in the inner cities and the state legislature... and I say that as a person who grew up in California and lived there almost my entire life, and who thinks that it is the prettiest state in the union. Purely in geographic terms, California has much to recommend it. And yes, there are plenty of wonderful and decent folks living there. But as a society as a whole, it is corrupt and beholden to race-baiters, commies, traitors, entitlements activists, and apologists for illegal immigration and all manner of sexual license. Madam Speaker Pelosi has been photographed marching next to the founder of
NAMBLA (the North American Man/Boy Love Association) during gay pride parades. Today, Pelosi is much more the face of California than is any hard working conservative central valley rancher.
The reason this is so is that Edmund Burke's dictum has been fulfilled. Back when homosexual activism was unheard of, the "rights" of illegal aliens were non-existent, military service had a broad appeal, "pot" was something you cooked in, and common sense prevailed, it was noisy, loud, unpleasant, rude, and shameless activists who changed the political landscape in California from being one that was primarily right of center to being primarily hard left. In the face of that, otherwise decent people - Edmund Burke's "good men" - did nothing in kind, and evil triumphed. For California to recapture its right of center past, conservatives will have to become noisy, loud, unpleasant, rude, and shameless activists for the conservative cause. However, it is not in the conservative nature to be those things. Thus, evil triumphs. Yes, there are good people in the state of California, but they live within an evil culture, and (paraphrasing Matthew 10:14) they should leave and shake the state's dust off their feet...
...or... they should do whatever it takes to change the state. For my own part, I believe that it has gone well past the point of no return, and California cannot be salvaged. At all. Ever. So I left.
...not that I have an opinion about it one way or the other...
