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Ok all I have a question...?
28 Oct 2019 | US Navy Vet

Posted on 10/28/2019 1:15:58 PM PDT by US Navy Vet

Ok here goes... Where/When did California get SO Screwed Up, I mean what was the pivotal Event/Year?


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: california; liberalagenda; liberalism; vanity
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To: US Navy Vet

When Abbie Hoffman said “don’t trust anyone over 30” and then turned 30... and it became “Trust in government”


41 posted on 10/28/2019 1:38:37 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: US Navy Vet

That’s too difficult a question.... how about, when was California not on a negative slope? I think you have to go back to the 40s....


42 posted on 10/28/2019 1:39:15 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: US Navy Vet

It is a weird thing.

Because, California topped everything. Education stats, health stats...

Guess, liberalism hit you like a freight train, just a bit before the rest of us.

It should have been a warning like Sodoma, but like back then.

We didn’t listen.


43 posted on 10/28/2019 1:39:36 PM PDT by Eurotwit (FRexit? No. AdiEU. - Loud Mime)
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To: Steely Tom

“As one of Hemingway’s characters says in The Sun Also Rises:

“How did you go bankrupt?”
“Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”

You have the perfect answer.

That is exactly how it happened.

Gradually initially, so nobody noticed, then when it happened quickly, it was too late to stop it.


44 posted on 10/28/2019 1:40:33 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: US Navy Vet

Not sure.

A major hot rod equipment company moved from CA to Tennessee last year-beginning of this year. Their Facebook page said it was based upon insane regulations, taxes, and cost of shipping their product out east related to CA high diesel prices.
The owner posted they was going to save in the 100’s of thousands per month in cost.

I think they had 120+ employees.


45 posted on 10/28/2019 1:40:40 PM PDT by setter
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To: married21

Downtown San Francisco already was starting to have a problem with phony “homeless veterans” in the Eighties and early Nineties, hanging out around Union Square and the cable car terminus and hassling tourists for money. It’s a thousand times worse now, the cancer spread out across the city.


46 posted on 10/28/2019 1:40:54 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: US Navy Vet

It was when New York was admitted to the Union ...


47 posted on 10/28/2019 1:40:54 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING!)
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To: US Navy Vet

1960’s

All those radical lefty students in Berzerkly and other UC colleges got their degrees and started becoming teachers and professors that warped the next generation.

They then moved into state government as well


48 posted on 10/28/2019 1:41:04 PM PDT by hattend
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To: rockinqsranch

I think you are on to something.

Cali became utopia not only to the nation, but to the world.

And, utopias this side of Eden do not tend to last very long.


49 posted on 10/28/2019 1:41:14 PM PDT by Eurotwit (FRexit? No. AdiEU. - Loud Mime)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
I blame Berkeley.

Yep

50 posted on 10/28/2019 1:41:47 PM PDT by hattend
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To: IC Ken

Close. I’d say the year before. In 1849, the California Gold Rush occurred (49ers). People wanting something for nothing, or at least that they could dig out of the ground without having to work too long, flocked there. Descendents of easy money seekers made California what it is today. Add in the same sort of thinking when Hollywood came of age and the hippies came to prominence, and there you have it.

This is compared to a family oriented, operations (farming) minded midwest and a mercantile East Coast. Nowhere is perfect, but the population of California certainly came from somewhere close to the historical events that I mentioned.


51 posted on 10/28/2019 1:42:02 PM PDT by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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To: eyeamok

That some random bodybuilder with questionable English an intellectual skills could get elected, should tell you that the rot is quite a bit older than that.


52 posted on 10/28/2019 1:42:16 PM PDT by Eurotwit (FRexit? No. AdiEU. - Loud Mime)
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To: rockinqsranch

You are right. It was gradual. Most of the Californians who voted for Reagan gradually died and were replaced by illegal immigrants who vote.


53 posted on 10/28/2019 1:43:06 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: Robert DeLong

It was literally a trope.

In all movies...

Free and cool California versus all the inbred idiot hicks in flyover country.

All the “Free and cool” people went there.


54 posted on 10/28/2019 1:43:58 PM PDT by Eurotwit (FRexit? No. AdiEU. - Loud Mime)
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To: samtheman

How did he get schnookered into that?


55 posted on 10/28/2019 1:45:46 PM PDT by Eurotwit (FRexit? No. AdiEU. - Loud Mime)
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To: humblegunner

Now it is clear, humblegunner.

It must have been us :)


56 posted on 10/28/2019 1:46:17 PM PDT by Eurotwit (FRexit? No. AdiEU. - Loud Mime)
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To: humblegunner

and pissant.


57 posted on 10/28/2019 1:46:33 PM PDT by Eurotwit (FRexit? No. AdiEU. - Loud Mime)
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To: ClearCase_guy

A long decline from 1967 and the Summer of Love.

But I think the immigration change in the 80s and the LA riots in the early 90s really accelerated the bad stuff.


Spot on!


58 posted on 10/28/2019 1:47:02 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
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To: US Navy Vet

September 9, 1850


59 posted on 10/28/2019 1:47:44 PM PDT by Mr. Mohasky (Common sense in a world lacking any, will be perceived & construed as an extreme point of view.)
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To: Eurotwit

It was the first (or early) instance of The Deal:

First you sign amnesty, then together WE will secure the border.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/02/11/kelli-ward-claims-president-ronald-reagan-regretted-1986-amnesty-law-did-he/1089297001/


60 posted on 10/28/2019 1:48:19 PM PDT by samtheman (Never underestimate The Stupid on the left... or the evil in the heart of a bureaucrat.)
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