Pretty brilliant. As a former resident of CA, I can relate.
A beautiful land once full of potential, now being run and ruined by perpetual children.
“Southern California is filled with moving trucks headed to Arizona, Texas and Nevada.”
Yes they are “committing cultural suicide”, but they are also bringing it to us’
Excerpt...
“Delusions, like all viruses, kill the host. The Left and its culture wars are a grand delusion.”
Sorry but running away from California won’t help. You stay and fight. The Democrats win only because they cheat there. Will you escape and run away from every state until the Democrats have cheated and rule all 50 states? And the author here is laughable, I bet they said the same thing about Virginia a few years ago too and look what happened in the last election
Also the writer of this article is retarded:
“California, like most major cities”
Ignore this nonsense article
Great article, thank u for posting it
Btt
My dad came to California in 1948.
He spent his life raving about it, the wonder, the raw beauty, the redwood trees, rugged coastlines, unique deserts and high mountains, California has it all.
I’m only glad he is no longer around to see what the politicians have done to this once paradise.
We think of Third World countries as poor, but they're not. Visit Karachi, Cairo and Jakarta, or even Baghdad, Gaza, or even Kabul, and you'll see great riches and even greater poverty. The problem with income inequality isn't that CEOs make two million times what their employees do, it's that there's nothing in the middle.
The middle class makes a society, sane and livable. It gives people something to reach for rather than beating their wives or knifing their neighbors in the dark. The bourgeois is civilization. Without the middle class, there's barbarism, a crude hierarchy and the rule of force. ...
"We will get out energy from the sun," they declare. "Houses for the unhoused," they clamor. "Money is just an idea," they insist. "Crime is a social construct invented by white supremacy." And so on.
What happens when people lose their sense of meaning and purpose? They sit on the beach, look out into the ocean, blind themselves with gorgeous sunsets and go out of their minds. Sanity is a function of responsibility. We are only sane as the tasks we set ourselves. Sanity means getting up in the morning and knowing what you have to do and why you have to do it. It's also reality, maturity and adulthood.
True words and a true article. Worth your reading.
Link to the original article (also on The Front Page): The State of Dreams
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What happens when people lose their sense of meaning and purpose? They sit on the beach, look out into the ocean, blind themselves with gorgeous sunsets and go out of their minds. Sanity is a function of responsibility. We are only sane as the tasks we set ourselves. Sanity means getting up in the morning and knowing what you have to do and why you have to do it. It's also reality, maturity and adulthood.
There's still time for one more walk, one more breath and one more sunset. And tomorrow? Just follow the moving trucks and the great migration from the land of dreams back to the real world.
Back in the real world, DeSantis fixed an island bridge so residents and truckers could get back to the process of rebuilding and living their lives. Three days. Now DeSantis is rebuilding the bridge to Sanibel. My neighborhood? We've picked up Hurricane yard debris and stacked it up by the street. City trucks will be picking it up (what's been missed) by Wednesday...and NO, WE DO NOT glorify 'the homeless' or enable criminals. It's the real world our 'middle class' is doing just fine.
Here in Arizona everyone PACKS HEAT.
We have those same stupid people ruining things on the east Coast too: I just stopped at McDonalds with my family to feed them after church. A large SUV, all black, with New York plates cut in line on front of me, then gave a large custom order over the speaker - and when we got to the windows, moved directly past the Pay window we and drove straight to the delivery window, got his order and left.
I was left to explain to my children that people like this exist. And vote Democratic.
Just an update.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1377367/posts
I’ve lived in California my entire life (I’m 62). What a different place it is from the state I grew up in.
Step one was legalizing ballot harvesting. At that point, it established fraud as the deciding factor in all elections. That established the Far Left as the party in power, at all levels and at all times.
That brought us to the reality described in the linked article. The state is finished. We have another house waiting elsewhere, but my wife is still holding on to hope that this place will be redeemed. It won’t; at least not in our lifetimes.
Great column.