You're certainly right about that! When it comes to Boxer, Pelosi, and company it's not just bashing any more -- it's much worse. It's deeply embarrassing and disturbing to be associated with such extreme lunacy in any way!
I guess that's what irks me as badly as anything, is that California is so beautiful and has so much variety, but has been so overrun by leftist idiocy. I don't mean to be a pessimist, because in my personal life I'm quite an optimist, but I'm afraid that the leftist takeover here is a longterm problem, and will take at least one full generation to be turned around for the better. It's hard to believe how recently this was the state of Ronald Reagan, and how quickly it has decayed into the current liberal stronghold.
I know what you mean and I too don't like the left turn but in most parts and where I live, it trancends politics for the most part....you would never know anyone's politics for the most part and it is just a wonderful community