Yes, you are bordering on insane - you are now shifting from “redistricting” to “politics and which ideology was in charge” as the reason for the decline in California.
I never said politics had nothing to do with it - the claim that you made was redistricting did California in, which is pure poppycock! DEMOGRAPHICS - figure out what that word means and you will move closer to the truth every sane intelligent person is already well aware of.
Part of your semi-insanity is this little, stupid game you play with word - “you don’t know the meaning of...” childish, and without the slimmest connection to reality. I use words for a reason, and I obviously know their meanings better than you do.
Your arguments have deteriorated to the silly and infantile - especially when you keep strawmanning everything - which you have done from the start. Look up the sophistry of strawman - you will be better for it. It is one thing to use a sophistry intentionally, but when one uses them unknowingly, as you do, it makes for a very bizarre debate; with one person (you) believing they have rebutted, when they have actually presented a nonsensical non sequitur.
As a conservative, I have little use for the gop. You are more gop than you are conservative. I have little use nor sympathy for your arguments.
Obviously the demographics of Cali are not good and getting worse but only a clueless yahoo who knows nothing about politics would pretend it doesn’t matter how the lines are drawn.
What’s amazing is that on other discussions, Mr. B, you actually are mostly in the right. Alas, when it comes to this subject and discussion, you totally go into meltdown. In any event, we’re not agreeing here whatsoever. It’s odd, because reviewing your positions elsewhere, you should come to the same conclusions as myself & Impy. Perhaps you’re just being argumentative and obtuse because you were too stubborn to concede you were wrong here.
In any event, you are also wrong (which, alas, you seem to batting .1000 in this particular thread) that I am “more GOP than Conservative.” Any cursory review of my posts will disavow you of that false conclusion. I consider the GOP as a vehicle for Conservatism, although it has been woefully lacking, especially where leadership is concerned. I am not an automatic vote for the GOP.
In my state of Tennessee, I have not voted GOP for Governor or Senator since 2006, and I won’t be rubber-stamping either this year with the present incumbents, neither of whom are Conservatives. I have not voted GOP for President since 2008 (and the latter was with exceptional hesitation, and had I to do it over again, would not have unless I had the option to vote exclusively for VP).
I trust this will conclude the discussion in this thread, since I think you would not wish to embarrass yourself any further, sir, by drawing any more erroneous conclusions.