Not to be a stickler for grammar, but I believe the present tense would work a little better here.
You know, every now and then someone posts some idiotic leftist rant like this in order to try to make it seem like the battle is between states, rather than between Americans and anti-Americans, and you gullible California-bashers fall for it every time. Instead of realizing that California is actually one of the greatest bastions of conservative American thinking, probably due to the fact that we are on the front lines of the culture war, you go right to dismissing the whole state. You people need to check yourselves, and I mean quickly, because the Left is playing you like a fiddle. Divide and conquer.