[Gomer1066]

America has become once again, "A House Divided" between slave (socialist) states and Free states. Once again the Republican Party represents freedom, and the Democrat Party, has once again become the party of slaves and slave owners. What will the next chapter bring? The Second American Civil War?

[kittymyrib]

CA is headed for the ash heap. They are so broke they won’t be able to afford lights and water soon. The rest of the USA has no obligation to bail them out. They made their bed and now they can lie in it.
Any sane people left should leave before the riots begin.

[gusopol3]

no bailout=reality

[Silver Sabre]

California has a huge non-white population that is always going to vote democrat. As the non-white population continues to explode other states will also do likewise.

[Impy]

Here in IL, Quinn stole it. Brady won, just not by enough. We gained 4 US house seats.

In MA the GOP doubled it’s tiny membership in the State House.

We would have won at least 1 US house seat there (CD 10) but the candidate was victimized by negative campaigning about his personal life.

The gubernatorial candidates in CA and MA were super-liberal RINOs.

[afraidfortherepublic]

...voted to put Jerry Brown—the washed-up old hippie known as Governor Moonbeam from his previous term in office—back into the governor's mansion

The last time he was in office, he SOLD the governor's mansion -- a house that Ronald & Nancy Reagan's friends built for them and gifted to the state. I don't know where Arnold was living, but I wonder what Brown will do now to the Governor's living accomodations? When mayor of Oakland, he lived in a warehouse converted to a commune for himself and members of his staff. But, now that he's finally married to a wealthy businesswoman, I understand that he lives in a contemporary mansion that they built for themselves in the Oakland Hills.

[wendy1946]

Are voters in those states actually voting for libtards or is it just vote manufacturing and vote counting which is the problem? I've made a number of suggestions for what I'd term a Voters Bill of Rights to end the disenfranchisement which demoKKKrat practices create and which our present two-party duopoly of power creates.

A country like Italy with a dozen or so political parties can afford to have one of them to rogue; under our present rules, we cannot.

[canuck_conservative]

What's the Matter with California?

TOO MANY LOAFERS

[BigCinBigD]

It’s still attached?

[prisoner6]

What's the Matter with California?

All that shaking ground has scrambled the brains that were already drug damaged.

[Altura Ct.]

CA has become a multicultural Marxist morass. A caricature pretending it is not. It’s fiscal destruction is also in direct relation. It is imploding. There is no stopping it as that would require acknowledging the core issues. The whole US, I fear, is not far behind.

[SkyPilot]

What's the matter with California? I can't give an answer as to the whole population. It is too big an equation to derive that simply.

But I can give you a personal example of what's wrong with it.

My sister-in-law moved to San Francisco CA about 25 years ago. In every aspect of her being (diet, politics, fashion, social views, opinions, etc) she believes she is superior, and California is superior to any and all others.

Moreover, she has a vehement hatred of Christianity. Oh, all other religions are just fine (Buddhism, Islam, Wicca, Pantheism, Hinduism, etc), but Christianity makes one ignorant, bigoted, and hateful.

Judaism is wrong too, because they "murder" the poor, poor "refugees" in "cold blood" every day.

To her, government is a religion and a god.

Millions of Californians (and Americans) believe this.

That is why they are so lost, so intransigent, and so wicked in their thinking.

[Leisler]

Fashion. It would help that the GOP didn’t throw up ugly, bland, dweeb, Harvard, corporate spooges, like Whitlessman, and her Spengali, Mittens. Brown did, and looked real in a high milage pickup truck. Having Mittens fly coach, and half hour photoshoots with a trashbag, or sitting on a tractor are as effective as Jon Fwench Kerry out in new hunting duds.

Corporate, financial slippery, off shoring, bailouting, Washington subsidy hustling, crap products isn’t a popular backround even in the GOP. Didn’t work for Forbes, Perot( both of whom I liked ) or Mittens or Whitman.

People will take a lawyer over a corporate dweeb.

[wendy1946]

Arnold was supposed to bring some semblance of salvation to California: what happened??

[CIB-173RDABN]

The fact that Calfornia has several large universities full of 18, 19 and 20 year olds. They tend to vote Democrat.

This is why Berkely and Santa Cruz is so socialist. Small college towns where the largest voting block are temporary residence.

Giving the vote to 18 years was a mistake.

[muir_redwoods]

California still thinks the rest of us will bail them out once they are completely broke. By then a new team ought to be in place in DC so good luck with that.

[Mr Inviso]

Hmm, what’s wrong with CA..

Too many imports into the state, both foreign and domestic.
We have illegals that have come in in hordes, and are not really prevented from voting, plus the refuse that came in seeking the twacked-out addlepated drug culture in the 1960’s and never left. Those folks came in from the rest of the US and created the mess that is the Bay Area. They stayed and festered and insinuated themselves into academia, media and legal system. That’s were we got the Boxers and Pelosis from (note that both of them are NOT natives!) This bunch has now raised a generation of kids that are a lot like they were.

CA already had a large enough share of leftists, but the counterculture of the 60’s adopting SF as its hometown created a magnet that drained the muck and mire from the rest of the US (with a few exceptions like MA and NY). The permissiveness of Hollywood created a second colony there, along with the nearly-accomplished reconquista of southern CA by illegals.

Even this mess was to some extent sustainable up until the “peace dividend” period of the early 1990s, when the huge defense industry present effectively was removed from California. The tech bubble helped some, but it’s no longer enough. Now it all comes down. Everything that constitutes a profitable major industry in CA is on its way down our out of the state. Defense is more or less gone, except for some remnants. Tech is moving to better business climates elsewhere as quickly as they can manage it. The car plants and steel mills and shipyards that were here are gone. Agriculture is being strangled by the state and Federal government through environmental regulation. Even the film industry is finding other places to do their work.

It’s a shame really. I love my native state, it’s one of the most beautiful places on earth land and climate-wise. I’ll miss it, as I’m leaving in roughly a month’s time.

[BroJoeK]

Gomer1066: "America has become once again, "A House Divided" between slave (socialist) states and Free states. Once again the Republican Party represents freedom, and the Democrat Party, has once again become the party of slaves and slave owners. What will the next chapter bring? The Second American Civil War?"

Many people flub this analogy -- somehow equating nasty Republicans with "slave owners" and Democrats with "freedom."
And not all of those flubbers are liberals.

So I'm delighted to see you got it right.
But if we extend the analogy -- remember it was slave-owning Democrats who first declared their secession and then began shooting at Union forces.

Our side -- the good guys -- did not seceed, and did not start a Civil War.

Let's not forget that.