The rat rot syndrome
I hope he’s posting this as he’s closing up the house or after he left.
I was born in Santa Monica in 1954. I’m going on twice as old as the author of this article. I can see that no matter where you go in this country the Left is going to screw it up. But if you’re younger then you have time to run.
Don’t come here.
Democrats thrive on chaos. They get re-elected simply because they pander to their base. With a pet dog media they can say , claim or promise anything without question or accountability. They freely give more and more to unions both public and private because a lot of it comes back to them in the form of campaign donations or more direct assistance during the campaign.
Democrats are like parasites sucking the life blood out of the host until the host dies. Will California recover? Don’t know. It is said an alcoholic has to hit rock bottom before even considering changing their ways.
California has not hit rock bottom yet, there is still wealth to plunder from those that work and save but that wealth is not endless and a lot of that wealth is mobile.
But I left for the Marine Corps, only coming back when I was stationed at Camp Pendleton (enjoying the occasional earthquake) but appalled at the increasing costs, the filth, the danger, the increase in Spanish-language billboards.
Ended up in Virginia. Reasonably safe, pretty weather but insane Democrats leading .. where next?
When I was willing to move almost anywhere and take almost any job, I balked at moving to any state where I could not carry a gun. I balked at moving to the inside of any major city. It wasn’t city life I opposed, it was the way these cities allow predator’s to prey on their citizens.
Along with the financial and demographic damage that liberal political entities directly inflict, we should consider the indirect infliction of what I would call opportunity losses. How many other good candidates will not move to a liberal area regardless of whatever the wages are? I would bet it’s a high number. Just talking to my own friends, admittedly, a skewed sample, none of them would even consider moving to a liberal pig sty area.
BTW, Oklahoma has moved. We're no longer next to Texas. We have moved 55 miles due east of Novia Scotia. Come on up. The water's fine.
So where’s he going?
Left in ‘93 after 26 years and 4 kids. Never to return.
I was born and raised in the Bay Area of CA and lived there until we moved north of Sacramento in 1972 when I was 15. California was a wonderful place to grow up; it was a state where you could ski in the morning in the Trinity Alps and find yourself enjoying the beach in the afternoon. The schools and colleges were top-notch and jobs were plentiful. But the downward spiral of that state which started in the late 1980s has resulted in the overtaxed, filthy hellhole we see today. I left that state in 1976 when I joined the military; I only go back there to visit family, but will never live there again.
“Looters were allowed free reign”
I think Ben means “rein”... unless he’s got a king/queen thing going on somewhere.
I left in June, after 16 years in the school system. My neighborhood went from ritzy in 2007 to a homeless mecca by 2020.
The once-Golden State--the envy of the world--is now a Third World Hellhole.
Perhaps the fatal flaw was hubris and denial.
Perhaps it was mindless faith in good intentions, as they paved the Road to Hell.
Perhaps the abundance, the golden light, the beauty and the ease of living lulled the population into a trance, as destructive and as addictive as the narcotic drugs, now ubiquitous in the California population.
Perhaps Californians lacked the wit of Odysseus, whose only declined adventure was the lotus.
Maybe its a combination of all these, but I think that, fundamentally, the deadly disease that has placed beautiful California on her deathbed is the decadence of Western Civilisation.
This disease is more deadly than any of the deadly plagues that brought Europe to the brink of destruction. It will destroy Western Civilisation and the nations of the Free World where all the plagues, wars, genocides, totalitarian regimes, and evil doctrines failed.
If California were a sovereign nation, it would already have passed the point of no return on its descent into decadence and destruction.
Whether or not the rest of the USA has passed this point remains to be seen.
Donald Trump thinks not. He thinks that the destruction of America can yet be halted and reversed, that the USA can be sent soaring once again into ascendancy, that, in his words, the best is yet to come.
So convinced is he of this, that he gave up the luxurious life of a multibillionaire to save his beloved USA and the American Dream from the destruction of decadence.
Pray that he succeeds.
Pray that America can be saved, and with it California.
Only God can save America.
but, I thought Ben Shapiro was gay....
Dear Kaslin, may you and your family find a safe haven to live, love, serve, and flourish in this world, and may our Blessed Lord give you safe haven in the world to come.
If you could eliminate every city in California and the azzholes that run them along with everyone who voted for them then California would be a nice National Park.
Lived in CA for two decades. Left 10 years ago. LOVED the beauty and the activities of the Golden State, now very tarnished. Lovely for our son to grow up there as we lived in a Conservative valley.
That valley, due to the legal ballot harvesting, actually elected the ‘throuple’ advocate in 2019. The Left has a stranglehold on the state and will not stop until it is completely dead/unlivable.
Good - just leave the voting habits y’all instituted behind when you do leave.
Try not to create another liberal paradise in your new locale.
My brother left after the “last earthquake”. Apparently people who didn’t grow up there have one of those. That and he suffered so many break-ins. .