[Leaning Right]

I don’t know who said it first. But with a heavy heart, I must agree.

“As goes California, so goes the nation.”

If you doubt that things could fall apart so fast, go back to California in 1968.

Ronald Reagan was governor.
Both US senators were Republican.

We’re on a one-way trip, and in the wrong direction.

[Alberta's Child]

In 1967, California governor Ronald Reagan signed one of the most liberal state abortion statutes in the U.S. into law.

Beneath the beautiful weather and the strong economy of the post-WW2 period in California, I tend to believe the state was always a leftist sh!thole at its core.

"Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept ... the plastic asshole of the world." -- William Faulkner

That's an epic assessment there.