And as a reward Newsom is mentioned as a possible presidential candidate by the left.
VDH ping
You could NOT PAY ME to live in CALIFORNIA!!
VDH in a lot of words aptly describes how CA fell.
I only have to use one word: DEMOCRATS
I am not a California resident, and never have been. I see them moving into ‘conservative states’ now like locusts. They will swarm and destroy the next area as they flee the destruction they created. They do not learn. They do not fix what they have broken. They move to a new area and destroy again. This will be the end of Western Civilization and its roots are really few major areas. California, New York City, Chicago, and the North East. The pattern appears to be to destroy voter integrity by illegal ballots, then increase the number of government dependents, followed by divisions and promises of ‘tax the rich’ will fix everything. The result is ALWAYS the same. The rich get richer, and the poor dependent of the whims of government.
These activities have moved the entire nation from a Constitutional Republic, to a fascist state as the Government usurps more power and answers to no one.
Ordinary Americans throughout the USA financed Hollywood and Disney, two huge leftist breeding grounds in that state. Leftist high tech contributed to the rot.
One of my brothers lives in Orange County. I wish he’d move out of there, but his children and grandchildren live in the area, so he won’t.
“They call it paradise
I don’t know why
You call someplace paradise
Kiss it goodbye”
“The Last Resort” by the Eagles
This is what Democrat/Communist Party politicians do ... and fully half of America loves it — and craves more — as many of those who flee California, like the “progressive” disease of cancer, metasticizing into and killing off healthy areas of our country .... and fully half of American voters want more of this.
I have very good memories of that time. California still seemed to be booming (this was early in the Reagan era) and a great place to raise a family. The areas I lived in were fairly conservative. However, even then, periodic trips to the Los Angeles area showed me the sleazier side of SoCal. Even at that time, there were thousands of Mexicans crossing the border illegally every day. I have memories of seeing them walking up the railroad tracks from my barracks window at Camp Pendleton, alongside I-5. Nobody even back then seemed interested in stopping them.
I've been back out there for pleasure and business several times since. Most recently October 2022, for a Blue Angels golf tournament in Carlsbad. I spent a day out on Oceanside Beach, which used to be a gem, and I remember seeing hundreds of homeless people camped out, many living out of old cars and vans. The stink was pretty bad if you got too close to them.
California has not had a decent Governor since Pete Wilson.
Bttt.
5.56mm
California sucks.
CA is doomed.
I left in 2022 and never looked back. Like the line goes from Saving Private Ryan, “Let it burn.”
Purgatory has become a cliche catch phrase. Like karma.
Does not exist in Protestant, nondenominational Christian, Islam, Hinduism or other religions. Hindus could argue a future worse or better life is similar, though. Christians believe in one chance at one life and that’s it.
It is a Catholic term for a way for souls to be cleaned and reformed (purged of sin and evil) since no evil is allowed in heaven.
Good news is all souls who are in Purgatory will later go to heaven.
Thus if California were Purgatory the torment there for good conservative people among the filthy sinning Dems would be on the way to something better.
It isn’t.
I am a native Californian since 1956.
If you could have seen this state as the 60s dawned you would have compared to a biblical paradise.
And this native Californian was determined to stay and fight. But now my heart is broken and I have no fight remaining.
I’m moving to Reno.