When will California reach the breaking point?

“It’s now illegal in California to shower and do laundry on the same day,” my husband read out loud to me a few weeks ago.

“It doesn’t matter,” he replied. “California is so out of touch with reality that it just doesn’t matter anymore.”

It saddens me to watch my former home state implode, but that’s precisely what is happening. California has been called the world’s largest insane asylum, and as headline piles upon headline illustrating the latest madness, the description seems apt.

It’s no wonder people are fleeing the Golden State in droves. What is the incentive to stay when taxes are sky-high, regulations are draconian and capricious, crime is rampant, infrastructure is crumbling, and politicians are so out of touch with reality they think they can make it illegal to shower and do laundry on the same day?

Housing prices, of course, are famously irrational. In Sunnyvale, a modest 848-square-foot home on a tiny lot gained national notoriety for its selling price. “After being listed in March for $1.45 million, it sold within 48 hours for $2 million, or $2,358 per square foot,” noted ZeroHedge. “With Sunnyvale’s 1.25 percent property tax, the new owners are paying $2,083 per month, or $250,000 every 10 years.”

It’s more than just the insane cost of living in the state. Many people are also fleeing the insane policies. Entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel (a co-founder of PayPal and an early Facebook investor) says it’s one thing for a culture to be “quite liberal” and another for it to be “totalitarian.” Dissenting opinions are not permitted. If you don’t believe me, walk onto any California college campus with a MAGA hat and see how long you last.

You know very well what my point was. I’ve stated it very clearly in my post 254.

But I will review for you, and the people in Rio Linda. In my post 14, I wrote “If you wished to know the truth, there are more people living in California with conservative attitudes than live in your state. Unfortunately there are even more liberals. Most who came here from other places.”

Then I’m my post 53, I wrote “If you took out the cities of Los Angeles and San Fransisco the state would vote majority republican. There are a large number of native born Californians such as myself who vote that way. The huge influx of people from Asia and Latin America, plus younger people indoctrinated by a thoroughly leftist education system account for the change.“

Now, while most people would clearly understand the meaning, as shown by others using the same type of phraseology in this very thread, I suppose it could have been clearer. Perhaps I could had written “If you took out the votes from the cities of Los Angeles and San Fransisco, the state would elect republicans. There are a large number of native born Californians such as myself who vote Republican. The huge influx of people from Asia and Latin America, plus younger people indoctrinated by a thoroughly leftist education system account for the change.”

So, again, my point was that while the aggregate of voting patterns in California has been clearly democratic for a while now, there are still a very large number of us, I assume you included, who do not agree with leftist ideology.

Is that clear enough?

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