The only time I've ever heard a Texan complain about Californians, is when Californians move to Texas.
I will say that I agree with you in the fact that Conservatives should be working together. I also agree that public schools all over are evil and should be avoided if at all possible. No one on this thread said anything bad about Californians until YOU started to jump all over Texans. I'm not one to promote the lesser of two evils, but you hardly have a leg to stand on and denigrate the schools in any state, short of New Yuck, with the nonsense and depravity that is celebrated in California.
You want to know why people deride California (which generally FReepers are not referring to Californian FReepers when the state is referenced) ?
Because California is the state that's state supreme court declared an amendment to the state constitution, unconstitutional" so that faggot "marriage" would be recognized - even after the people voted it down. Because California tries to force oppressive environmental standards on the rest of the country. Because California won't acknowledge it's citizenry's RIGHT to own and carry firearms without major hurdles. It is the state that tries to force a "renewable green energy" platform on it's people and then after three years of 'environmental impact studies' shuts down a solar electric farm in the desert because it might make the desert more desert. This is also the state that wanted to go after Arizona due to emissions from AZ power plants that pollute California's air.....completely ignoring that power plants in AZ produce a large volume of California's electricity.
If I had to move and the choice was Texas or California, I'd chose Texas hands down. The RIGHT to own and carry a firearm is still recognized there. The people are smart enough not to allow farm land to turn to desert over some 3" delta smelt that isn't even a native species. Stupid teachers that force children to piss themselves are called out, rather than glorified like the teachers in California that teach 'muslim awareness week' and the joys of anal fisting.
And yes, I've been to California, unfortunately on multiple occasions. I'm one of the "lucky" individuals that got to witness a "man" walking down the street in San Fransisco wearing "clothes" made out of nothing but candy necklaces while wearing a sign that read "Free Candy." This wasn't even during one of their infamous "gay pride" parades; just a normal day in San Fransisco. And, instead of deriding these people and public nudity, the people look to ensure the "right" of sexual deviants to parade about while naked in public is "protected." I've also had the pleasure of taking the wrong exit and winding up in glorious Compton.
I take comfort that when I'm in Texas, or back home in Virgina, there are a good many of my fellow citizens that are also armed. I take comfort that in many of the places I go in TX and VA people still remember what the words "please," "thank you," and "excuse me" mean; even in some of the more seedier areas of Dallas and Richmond. I also am thankful that I have yet to see deviants parading about naked in public in full view of women and children.
As I said, things are screwed up all over, California is definitely leading the pack; on the plus side, that's the state the rest of us look at to say "we don't want to end up like them."
“No one on this thread said anything bad about Californians until YOU started to jump all over Texans.”
You are absolutely right! That said, If this had been an article that dealt with the same issue but referenced a California school, you Texans would been all over it like white on rice. Despite the fact that FR is headquartered here in California, you folks from Texas alway light up whenever the “opportunity presents itself.” All the BS about “let’s cut California loose and let it float out to sea” kind of crap tells me that the person making the remarks isn’t bright enough to have a reasoned discussion. They would rather make snide remarks that diminish the dialogue down to the point where it’s useless. I have only been trying to point out that to the extent that you participate in this kind of moronic nonsense, that you cheapen what FR was founded to foster; open, reasoned dialogue. What this series of back and forth comment has proven t my satisfaction is that for some of you Texans. its all about being critical about something about which you know very little. Do yourself a favor and try to be objective.