Pretty brilliant. As a former resident of CA, I can relate.
A beautiful land once full of potential, now being run and ruined by perpetual children.
No,worse than children. Maoists.
I traveled to California numerous times in my career; I couldn’t imagine a more beautiful place with perfect year-round weather. San Francisco, despite the plethora of weirdos, was an amazing setting. But the last time I went there was four years ago; took BART in from the airport, the stench of urine in the downtown station was overpowering, rows of young men seated in the tunnels, doing nothing productive, you had to be careful not to trip over their feet. Even San Diego and coastal Orange County, places of astounding beauty, seem to be falling - the aggressive homeless are so out of control in SD that even the formerly radical NBA player Bill Walton wrote an angry letter to the mayor after being accosted by one. The liberals have ruined the State that President Reagan governed.
History has a pattern of correcting the ways of an unserious people. Either via the hard life lesson, or by elimination.
“All the gold in California,
Is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills,
In somebody else’s name.
So if you’re dreaming about California,
It don’t matter at all where you’ve played before
California’s a brand new game.
Tryin’ to be a hero, winding up a zero
Can scar a man forever right down to your soul
Living on the spotlight can kill a man outright
Cause everything that glitters is not gold.”
Larry Gaitlin and the Gaitlin Brothers Band
I went to Castro Valley HS, Rachel Maddow would follow me by about a dozen years...lol. That school was woke before woke was invented.
I was a pariah on campus my last two months in HS (1972), guilty of accepting an Army ROTC scholarship. I've had a problem with authority figures since then...lol, a couple of teachers said to my face how "disappointed" they were with me.
These are the people running the state and the country now. As you said it, they're children. Our 50th reunion is this month, but decided not to go. Why spend the money to travel 2000 miles for a six hour event? It would have been a nice FU moment for me, but I've spoken to one schoolmate since graduating.
There's probably two dozen alums from college I still correspond with, and that's where my focus lies.