Oh, and I am in the Western People’s Republic, Kah-lee-fahwn-ee-ah.
Well, I am no longer one of those people who says they wish for the big one to slide California off into the ocean. (I never really ‘wished’ for it, but would often use it as a figure of speech to demonstrate how displeased I was with some of the things I saw...)
It was a classic case of how I wore my own state’s faults on my back, and took offense when people would sincerely express the same kind of wishes for Massachusetts.
In retrospect, liberals in California can probably do a lot more damage than liberals in Massachusetts, but...even though you guys might have Courtney “Pete” Stark and The Governator, we had the likes of Kennedy, Kerry and Frank (not to mention Meehan, McGovern, etc.)
So...Massachusetts has much more liberal bang for the buck.