“My whole life, people I’ve met from California have been a bit “off”, ranging from a little eccentric to full-blown loonies.”
My whole life, I’ve met wonderful people from California. I’ve got friends in California who are very conservative and I have conservative friends who moved from California to Colorado lock, stock and barrel. One brought a fifty million dollar company with him. Another joined the Boulder County Sheriff’s Department out of Long Beach and recently retired at the Sargent level.
I’ve traveled and vacationed in several parts of rural California, and the people there are solid, conservative citizens and wonderful people like ALL parts of non-urban America in all states. I’ve patronized many small family-operated oriental restaurants in San Francisco, owned and operated by very hard-working people. One of my best friends (who is very conservative) lives in the San Diego area and works for the Navy. I’m pretty sure he’ll leave when he retires and take his large retirement with him, away from the reach of California taxes.
The mistake a lot of conservatives make is that they think they can wall off some “blue state” and let them marinate in their own liberal induced misery.
A border drawn on a map no more insulates red state politics from blue state politics than it would do with communicable diseases.
Liberalism has to be eradicated the way a surgeon and chemotherapy battle cancer. It has to be cut out. Liberalism is toxic and corrosive, and even the reddest of states have seeds of liberalism growing.
Liberalism needs to be battled everywhere by this country and citizens who believe in our republic, including inside blue states.