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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Why should the state worry? They've imported enough high fertility parasites from the 3rd world to keep the Democrats firmly in power.
Problem is, they're running out of 'other people's money' as businesses close and the California tax base flees to lower tax states such as Texas and Florida.
What does Gov. Newsom care - by the time the SHTF, he'll long be in Montana where his wife is from.
I have a question:
When your enemy is imploding, why outline why it is occurring?
Let it implode of its own accord.
As a young adult, I can't put into words the anger I had at his act re illegals.
If not for my convictions, it was enough to at a minimum question my party affiliation even then (for many years now firmly independent).
California’s problem is massive voter fraud that put the corrupt politicians starting with Greasy NewSCUM in office. There were two recalls on Greasy that were defeated by voter fraud. For those who don’t believe it, remember that FU Biden was in office via voter fraud.
The citizens of California did not vote for the crap that is going on nor did they vote for the bastards and bitches in office in CA.
There is voter fraud ongoing in every state, Red or Blue.
yes, my dad was in the Navy and he decided to settle there because it was one of his ports of call. It sure was a lot of fun for a while. I do miss the way it was although I’ve never been back in years.
Voter ID, of course, should be required. However, ballot harvesting is the real culprit and the Dems now have that machine well oiled.
Nigh impossible to beat.
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