I couldn’t agree more. Living in CA I am surrounded my narcissists. Go to the mall see all of these teenagers covered from head to toe with piercings and ghastly tattooes. Go to Venice Beach, pot dispensaries all over the place. Television is worse than ever. The only respite I get from TV is METV where I can watch reruns of the Beverly Hillbillies, Hogan’s Heroes, Batman, Lost in Space, and Voyage to the Bottam of the Sea. And these public schools run by these neo Stalinist teachers unions turning our kids heads into mush. All they learn about in history is Dr. MLK Jr and Cesar Chavez. I have had take my child to the Nixon and Reagan Libraries to get a real history lesson. I have told my child never even think about a tattoo or a piercing. I have enrolled her in Catechism. We go to church every week. I see to it that homework gets done before computer games and TV. I think discpline is the key. Our culture sucks. Our country is bankrupt. Our president is Marxist. All the rest of the country had to do was look at my pathetic state. But no. The rest of the nation seems hellbent determined to follow CA’s descent into hell and bankruptcy.
Our family is right there with you. Took my kids to the Reagan Library. Great experience. Nixon Library is next. We’re into Get Smart re-runs, and send the kids to Catechism, go to Church, etc.
The sad thing is not just that CA is tanking, but that the kids know it and are bummed about the future, instead of having that hope that California and America has always evoked.
My sensitive high-school age daughter is so appalled that the state of CA is going to be teaching about gay heroes in school, she actually grieves for Governor Brown’s soul. For kids with a sound moral core, they have a hard job to buck the cultural tide on a daily basis. I’m just glad my parents didn’t live to see this decline.
I’m from CA, too, and you’d think if anyone wanted to see the fruits of liberalism, multiculturalism, and open borders, all they’d have to do is look at CA, especially LA and San Fran. But do they learn? No. They race on, hell-bent on turning the rest of the country into the same mess.