If Romney-Ryan takes California I would do the Snoopy Happy Dance........
Yes, they are woefully outnumbered. From LA where there are millions of illegals, foreigners from every country and liberals, to San Francisco, to every liberally dominated city and enclave near the coastline of California.
The farther you get back into the high desert and into less laid-back places where people actually produce for the country (there are some exceptions), the more you see conservative Californians.
California has had chances to correct the errors every election but have voted in failure. Conservatives have been moving out in droves for years. I know many of them. With the majority of the electorate now being very liberal I see no chance for change. I would say 1/3 of the state has a clue with the rest being clueless. Don’t forget that Free Republic is based in California.
If Romney-Ryan takes California I would do the Snoopy Happy Dance........
I live in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and this is so true. Sad AND true.
I would like to leave CA, as others here have expressed, but we own a small business and are stuck for now.
I tell my husband we cannot afford to retire here and he says, "I was born in California and I want to die here."
My response: "That can be arranged."
Sort of wordy. CA is a drunk, addicted to unionized public employees and their outsize pensions; regulatory regimes within regulatory agencies gone thoroughly amok, and uncontrollable spending on all manner of benefits for illegals. It’s a damn shame, but the idea that it can be reversed before the state turns into an utter hellhole is patently absurd delusion. The voting districting has been gerrymandered into a morass of self-immolation that very obviously has to hit bottom before it reverses. Having lived in CA for 40 years, I expect to be leaving within 40 days.
I moved out of Calif. in '97....One of the best things I ever did.
If the turn out is not very heavily conservative across the country, just like in 2010, then the US will very quickly turn into California.... more’s the shame
Yep, in California the last poll in the local newspaper obama was up 25%.
It’s just weird.
I have seen on two signs for Romney, none for obama.
Bumper stickers I saw one on an old woman’s car, but it was from ‘08 and none for Romney.
You wouldn’t even know it was an presidential election year.
For years I have been saying nothing will be done to change our course...short of the 'checks bouncing'.
That time approaches but I can't predict the outcome. Those 'on the take' may react by rioting, just as they are in Spain, Greece....
Will we have a livable country then?
Want to see where the USA is heading within then next 10-20 years? Look at Argentina.
And the title? Nay, even the concept and it's very phrasing? "The Quietist Californian"
You are looking at world-class politically correct neurolinguistic programming here, folks. World class.
Because what is actually being described is profound moral cowardice.
Jesus spoke of this when he said: “So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth” (Rev. 3:16)
"Quietist." So refined. Calm. Considered. Have a sip of white wine with that. Here's a bite of cheese.
What these people are, are California RINOs. They enable the Democrats. They wear the right clothes, work the right jobs, go to the right parties, listen to everyone carefully, and can always see both sides.
And never take any.
Unless challenged, and then they will definitely declare they are taking a side, and be upside that you thought they weren't, and talk about the issues, and have a sip of wine... and commit to nothing. Are you a conservative? Well, they understand! They even own a few guns. They've been a part of a small business, they worked chores as a kid and have calluses on their hands. They get it.
Have a sip of wine.
Are you a liberal? Hey, thnak God someone is fighting back, right? Where would the poor be without these laws, and how much is enough to make sure that we're all not stuffed into someone's idea of a church? Gays? They have 3.5 gay friends - each. With papers to prove it. Same for blacks and mexicans. habla espaniol, dude? Haha, have a sip of wine.
You haven't seen enablers like the ones in California. They make oil look sticky, while never touching a drop themselves. What do you think EST was really about, buddy? Naked chicks in hot tubs? Well, you're right. That's ALL it was about. And now YOU'RE the naked chick in the hot tub, about to get screwed, without a clue as to how much manipulation that modified lounge lizard or soccer mom is smiling at you.
Lawyers get nervous around these people. Think on that.
And that's all they have to do - nothing. Because the Democrats will do the rest. Oh, they vote Democrat, reliably. But hey, it tears at them. Thye can't not vote, after all, apathy is death. But the republicans go too far, it's better to work with the system, team players are in the game, at the end of the day there's still tommorrow, have a sip of wine.
Now take all that, and add antidepressants.
"Quietists"?
Yep, quiet. Like the townspeople of Aushwitz, closing their windows when the wind shifted, sighing, but understanding that "objection would evoke such outcry that it was not worth the effort..."
Have some wine.