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Posted on 06/04/2026 7:29:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
California’s decline is no mystery: decades of one-party rule have turned America’s golden state into a warning about the costs of ideological governance.
The recent California gubernatorial and Los Angeles mayoral elections—where, remarkably, Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt both appear to have advanced to the general election in November—offer a glimmer of hope.
Could it be that some on the Left, along with a number of Independents, have finally realized that neither wealth nor an upscale ZIP code can protect them from the Left’s vindictive socialist madness?
California gas prices, even prior to the Iran war, had reached the highest levels in the continental United States.
The cause is self-evident: left-wing policies that forbid most new gas and oil exploration, impose radical green-fuel mandates and levy the highest gas taxes in the U.S. and drive out oil refineries.
Illegal immigration has soared. Currently, some 11 million Californians—28 percent of the resident population—were not born in the U.S. This foreign-born demographic exploded at precisely the time that civic education and melting-pot assimilation and integration were denigrated in the public schools and replaced by ethnic chauvinism and pre-civilizational DEI tribalism.
A third of the nation’s welfare recipients and nearly a third of the homeless live in California. Almost a quarter of the state’s population lives below the poverty line.
California has the highest electricity rates in the mainland United States and the steepest income taxes in the nation. And yet it annually runs the highest budget deficits of the 50 states.
Despite massive unfunded pension debts of $265 billion, the state has spent billions of dollars on illegal-alien subsidies, from free health care to solar panels.
The state has wasted between $15 billion and $20 billion on its Bakersfield-to-Merced high-speed rail line since the project was approved in 2008.
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No. Next question.
VDH ping
No.
Cal-Dems will cheat their way into winning.
Count on it.
Note that the post-election count appears to be almost all for the corrupt-O-Crat incompetents.
We’ll just have to wait for the total collapse of the state, then swoop in and send ALL leftists to the failed, corrupt country of their choice. Under the penalty of death.
Not kidding.
No, it can not be saved at this point
Too big to be saved.
Let there not be confusion in service to a supposed (and delusional) "even handedness." California's demise has been purely a matter of political corruption feeding its way into what is not a bottomless pit. Greed knows no ends, but wealth does.
No. California has been overrun by migrants from Asia and Mexico who remain emotionally and culturally attached to their homeland. A significant percentage of the native born population has embraced neo pagan, hedonistic, epicurean life styles. A clear majority of Californians know or care little of American heritage. They do no love the land.
Nuke it from orbit, just to be sure...
No.
200,000 registered Republicans did NOT vote in mayor election. If Republicans want the mayor of Gov in California all they need to do is vote.
It’s unfortunate there’s no Constitutional way to put a state back into territorial status.
As long as there is mail-in voting that is controlled by the Democrats, there is no hope for California.
That's what the voters there think they are doing. From their POV they just aren't there yet.
So for an almost-senile boomer like VDH, it's a confusing question - because for what he means by "saved", the answer is no, it's impossible.
The whole political system is frozen, stuck with two parties that are competing to see who goes out of business first, neither one with a concept of a safe, productive future - the Democrats with dreams of 1933 and 1965, the Republicans re-quoting their amiable dunce with his remark about "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" - as if State power to crush America's enemies and sustain her native population is forever off the table.
Even an historian like VDH can't think of an action plan to save California. Hopefully there are young people who will come to power in 10-20 years that will figure it out.
Well said by VDH!
No, the People’s Republic of California cannot be saved in the short run. The PRC must collapse and bottom out before it is possible to rise from the ashes, much like Detroit. Only, this is an entire state of 40 million people.
California is a complete lost cause and getting “loster”.
People say, stay and fight. I left in 2021 for the sanity of Tennessee and never looked back. Every single day I am given a reason that I am grateful to now be in Tennessee and to have left California to its woke Left Socialist ruin.
With so many of us conservative voters wisely fleeting California, the GOP voter base is steadily declining, and being replaced by Democrat voting immigrants.
California is a one party Democrat Socialist state with a built in Democrat super majority. There is positively NO saving it. There is NO WAY that Hilton wins governor. There is NO WAY Pratt wins LA mayor. It is all over but the crying.
If I sound pessimistic, it is simple logic and realism. California is done. Stick a fork in it.
Rhetorical question I assume.
CA has essentially become the Kurt Schlichter novel “Peoples Republic”
Yes. Once it breaks off and falls into the Pacific.
With four months remaining until the general election, the Senate must pass the SAVE Act. Then we will see how blue California really is.
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