Posted on 03/24/2025 4:38:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
California’s high taxes, crime, and regulations are driving an exodus, shifting political power to red states as the once-prosperous blue-state model collapses under economic and social strain.
While the media and the new Democrat Party grow hysterical over the Trump counter-revolution, they are missing some of the most revolutionary and insidious changes in American society of the last century.
Much has been written about the collapse of the old orthodox Democratic Party, along with the growing irrelevance and dysfunction of the legacy media, elite universities, and state and federal agencies. But their growing unattractiveness is all related and was not just the result of top-down development.
Rather, current Democrat Party radicalism, street theater, and violence were merely reflections of its own preexisting cultural antipathy toward the middle class. The party is now a pyramidal coalition of the very wealthy and professional classes comprising the capstone, resting atop a vast, expanding bottom of the subsidized and working poor, strapped pensioners and retirees, angry indebted students, 30s-something urban wannabees, impoverished immigrants—including perhaps 30 million here illegally—and, increasingly, trapped residents of a dystopian big-city America.
The collapse of the blue-state/blue-city model and those who work within and promote it reflects the radical environmentalism of the college-educated, as well as an array of high taxes, high crime, endless government regulations, housing shortages, massive homelessness, illegal immigration, critical-legal-theory prosecutors, ethnic and racial chauvinism, defund-the-police city councils, and, most importantly, chronic budget deficits and vast, unfunded pension liabilities and obligations.
In response to this progressive implosion that accounts for Democrat Party unpopularity, under the radar are historic demographic shifts. They reflect two insidious phenomena.
One, the blue-state, urban/professional/college-educated profile has become antithetical to fertility.
No one knows exactly the contributory relative roles to childlessness played by the progressive embrace
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I was born in So Cal. It was a paradise. I watched it collapse right after the Reagan amnesty. I left a long time ago for a place much less vibrant
Kali has survived this long because its resources were exploited by the left, and the US taxpayers helped foot the bill for this leftist utopian experiment .
Cash flow is gone, time to reap what you sowed.
Last election showed some signs of life, we will see if the dancing fool and his minions succeed in completely destroying this once beautiful state.
California’s big problem is that the whole state acts like Hollywood, where reality is merely a state of mind.
Utopian California- The catalyst for the eventual destruction of the United States? Blue state MI seems to be positioned to follow it down.
The thing is that CA has such a huge economy that it will take a long time to finally collapse. Also, select part of the state may collapse while others will be fine.
california may want to vote their way out
but the single party in charge
has voter fraud down to a science
If CA were a nation state, it would be Venezuela. Caracas was a shiny tourist destination and natural resources were abundant. A communist thug with violent mobs could tip the southern half as it stands, though it seems there have been mini versions of this over the years.
Peter Thiel described CA’s economic model as a kind of Western Saudi Arabia. Just swap Big Tech for Big Oil. His point was that the wealth brought in from Big Tech masks a lot of underlying problems. But might not do so forever.
So far, no strong GOP candidates have emerged for next year's gubernatorial election. But there is one bright spot--a proposition to bring back voter ID is circulating, has strong support, and may be on the ballot next year.
Marxists hate the bourgeoisie. They also hate the rural folk. And Christians.
Communists love the masses. It’s people they hate.
Come on, Victor, it's more like 50 million.
Paraphrasing Margaret Thatcher.
Welcome to the Hotel California.
The left are parasites.
At first they just wound the host but if they stay in power long enough they will kill it.
The SHIT State of Illinois is TRYING to outdo the SHITTIER State of Californication, maybe they will eventually.
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