Posted on 11/05/2010 12:57:00 AM PDT by Scanian
I would like to feel elated about the elections last Tuesday, but alas, I live in California. As the rest of the nation lurches back toward common sense, California defiantly stands as a testament to the power of delusion. Over twenty billion dollars in debt, some of the highest unemployment in the nation, businesses fleeing the bloated bureaucracy's draconian regulations, water policies dooming the farming industry in the vital Central Valley, out-of-control taxation -- all of these crises are political in origin and speak to a legacy of ideological obtuseness combined with incompetence of astonishing magnitude.
I have been striving to understand how my beloved state could again give a chance to Jerry Brown, a career politician and former governor who is in many ways responsible for California's present disasters; allowed the reelection of Barbara Boxer, a corrupt, radical partisan whose intellectual vacuity is an embarrassment; voted down Proposition 23, which would have halted, at least temporarily, the "green" restrictions encumbering our faltering economy; voted in Proposition 25, which will make it easier for politicians to raise already astronomically high taxes; and turned over key posts, such as Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of State, as well as a majority of the state assembly and Senate seats, to the party most responsible for California's ruination. I can't wrap my mind around this phenomenon without using metaphor.
A friend of mine has a daughter who, in high school, was beautiful, bright, and ambitious. However, she was quite pampered by her parents, and right out of high school, she began a series of disastrous relationships with men. A couple of these boyfriends were actually in residential drug rehabilitation at the time they were dating her.
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A coherent and very accurate (not to mention depressing) summary of “the problem” in California—and within the psyches of latter-day Democrat voters in general.
I’ve noticed a lot of out-of-state plates in California since Nov 2. Must be either operatives finishing the job on Harmer, or perhaps Dems leaving the newly deep-red states looking for a new blue home.
Heaven help us who remain in the Central Valley.
I like to call it “Liberal Battered Voter Syndrome.” After being assaulted, abused and mistreated constantly by the Left, the voter accepts leftism as a natural state of affairs. And this is what has led California to the place it finds itself in today.
As good people will testify, battered women have a hell of time disassociating themselves from the men who hurt them because they have come to believe this is what love means. In a similar manner, people have convinced themselves the leftist contempt for them is actually compassion. Getting them to change is nearly impossible. Its doubtful the battered California voter will ever wake up and say “enough.” For only when you are free, will you be truly free.
This singular distinction separates from those accustomed to servitude and those who maintain their rights as free men. That is the question Californians must confront, if ever they escape from the lethal clutches of the “Liberal Battered Syndrome” in which they are now trapped.
It’s time to leave. The collapse is imminent, and you really don’t want to be nearby when it happens.
Vote with your feet - MOVE!
You have absolutely no sympathy for the California populace. I don’t know of anyone who wanted your sympathy; I do find your judgmental superiority a bit odd though.
Do you have any sympathy for those of us who voted against Obama and suffered under his 2 years of folly? Or are you disgusted with yourself for ‘letting it happen’ (i.e. not controlling the outcome of the vote). Are you smacking your lips saying you’re getting exactly what you deserve as our economy tanks, debt explodes, jobs disappear?
You do realize that those of us in CA who were outvoted are in the same position as those of us who were outvoted on Obama’s presidency, right?
I voted straight Republican ticket in CA as usual - but like the POTUS vote of 2008, I didn’t get what I wanted. good to know that SOME Freepers find deep deep gratification in seeing a state of the union fail. Make that a state of the union that provides 13% of national GDP (2006 data) and is among the top 10 economies in the WORLD. Gosh I hope you don’t suffer when CA tanks and takes it’s percentage of GDP with it...
Standard of living will collapse for the state. Roads will become impossible to drive above 20 MPH, as the roads crumble and do not get repaired. As that happens, all business (whats left) will vacate out of necessity.
All government services will virtually stall.
Hollywood libs will start running national telethons for charity drives, blaming all of it on Bush.
NY will get a preview of their future with Cuomo at the helm.
A decent comparison, but not wholly accurate, because so many of the voters are not turning to failed policies out of desperation.
The three sets of Dem voters that ruin things for us here in CA are the freeloaders, often immigrants, who want free goodies; the ideological leftists who understand radical liberalism and enjoy it; and the set of Dem voters that could be reachable if Republicans knew how to do it: the uninformed, who vote Dem because it’s cool, and the cool Hollywood people do it, or their entire race or culture does and they are afraid of being mocked if they stray from the fold.
And it’s not like the pampered girl who keeps making wrong decisions that get her in deeper. They are different voters with all of the above reasons for voting Dem.
It’s up to us to fight for this state the way the revolutionaries fought for this country. We need to take it away from limousine liberals who welcome high taxes (I know many of these) and feel that the answer to all those glorious poor people is patronizing them with government goodies. We need to take it back from people who stole their way in and do not know or care about American liberty or ideals.
Instead of running for the door, we need to be brainstorming how we can get good, conservative candidates who will not campaign on social issues at all, but on fair, good fiscal policies. Who can explain how conservatism is better for EVERY Californian, not just the right wingers.
Joe Q. California does not even KNOW that taxing the rich means they won’t be able to hire people.
Joe Q. California doesn’t even understand that regulating businesses with super tough laws to “prevent global warming” will make businesses leave the state and go where they can make money in freedom.
Joe Q. California doesn’t get that making handouts “fun” and shame-free will KEEP people dependent for generations.
Joe Q. Public does understand that he doesn’t want government in his bedroom. But he doesn’t know how to extrapolate that to other freedoms. He thinks it’s OK to make laws to control kids’ food, or what kind of car you drive, as long as it doesn’t affect him. He needs to know that true freedom means EVERYONE can live as they wish, not just Joe.
Who is going to explain all this and more to him????
The dependent class doesn’t care. But the Democrats problem is asking them to pay is akin to pulling out a bad tooth. People don’t want to pay for their benefits. At some point, the party’s over.
Canary in the coal mine. California.
But, don't you know, those oh-so-righteous and prosperous (snicker) windmill companies and solar producers will be flocking to the Golden State where they will be pampered to death (literally)!
You “escaped in 1985.” And how many hundreds of thousands have escaped with you over the years?
Most of them were “makers” and they left behind a multitude of “takers,” who seem to make up the lion’s share of the Cali electorate these days.
With so many on the dole (and that includes public service unions), is there any wonder that no conservative has a snowball’s chance in hell in a statewide race?
Sometimes I wish we could just unhitch that place from the rest of the country, let it float independently in the Pacific having to fend for itself, and see how well it does.
My own “California dreamin,” I suppose.
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