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I agree. The destruction of California began in earnest in the 1960s with the eruption into the open of the counter-culture movement. This was also the beginning of the destruction of the entire USA.

This was the eruption into the open of the Decadence of Western Civilization in America.

Civilizations fall because of internal moral rot and decay. The counter-culture movement was the eruption into the open of the moral rot and decay that had been festering in America.

Its battle cries were "If it feels good, do it!" and "Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll!"

Its proponents claimed a "new morality," which was nothing more than immorality, and other virtues that were dubious at best.

In fact, it stood for nothing more than the self-indulgence of the "entitled," "anointed," spoiled children of the men and women who had built the USA from an untamed wilderness, suffered through World War I and the Great Depression, and saved the world from the horrors of naziism and the Japanese Empire in World War II, sashaying down the staircase of civilization in their "velvet slippers."

They were the typical "entitled," "anointed," spoiled, self-indulgent children of rich parents everywhere and for all time, but in large numbers, on a national level.

Maybe this is what decadence is: When the number of "entitled," "anointed," spoiled children of rich parents reaches a critical mass, decadence ensues, and, if it is not reversed, the nation is doomed.

Today these people have commandeered the entire Democrat Party.

"History is a staircase on which men in hobnail boots ascending pass men in velvet slippers descending>"