I’ve been trying to work it from the outside. Supporting the the up and coming with donations, and email campaigns, and of course, opinion on blogs, etc.
Even intelligent people living in California act as though they have been brainwashed.
When the subject of illegal immigration's overwhelming California and the rest of the U.S.A. came up, one highly intelligent, sophisticated, and well educated friend responded, in usual Leftist manner, with a mindless platitude: "I think anybody who wants to come to this county to better himself should be allowed to do it."
When I replied that "California can either remain financially solvent or provide welfare for Mexico but not both," he looked as though I had doused him with ice water, as though this had ever occurred to him.
When I commented that the Mexican immigrants I have known have always been good, decent, family oriented people--that some have shared my values concerning property rights and rights to protect their families and raise children as they deem wise--that one Mexican man said to me "If the government can tell me what to do with my property, then I don't own my property!" et al.--and that I have liked all the Mexicans I have known, both in the U.S. and in Mexico--but that U.S. immigration laws should be enforced and unlimited immigration will overwhelm the U.S.A. and could, if of sufficient magnitude, destroy the United States--he confessed: "I've never liked Mexicans. Neither did my father."