Posted on 06/06/2019 3:37:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
California has morphed from paradise into a garbage state run by garbage people for their own garbage benefit and amusement. The “garbage” part is literal – once the Sierra Nevada mountains symbolized the state; now, towering heaps of trash and human waste do. Welcome to what the Democrats want for all of America. Just watch your step. Literally.
If it were not for the climate, something the liberals in charge of my state have nothing to do with as much as they think they do, it would likely be a nearly empty desert once again. But the sun shines, the beach beckons and the palm trees sway over a population of morons who keep electing proggy fascists to run the place. Which they are doing, right into the ground.
Where once people flocked to make their dreams come true, you now pay multiples more for a U-Haul heading out than heading in. The great California middle class, made up of the Normal people whose hard work and ingenuity made it the Golden State (even though Hollywood types got the publicity), is fleeing to places where they can afford to live, and where the government doesn’t hate them.
And hate them Sacramento does, targeting Normals with petty and not so petty attacks, from bans on straws and gun grabs to the threat of lifting the Proposition 13 caps on property taxes that keep millions of retirees from being tossed out of their homes when their annual bills go up 4000%. What would that mean? Well, when that modest ranch style you bought for $100,000 in 1985 gets reassessed to its current $1,000,000 value (something Prop 13 prevents), and the 1% Prop 13 tax rate goes to 3% or 4%, your tax bill goes from $1,000 a year to $30,000-$40,000. Remember that retirement you worked for? Well, now it will all go to subsidize the deadbeat government workers and welfare cheats that the California Democrats really represent.
“No, that’s crazy talk! That would never happen!”
Yeah? Just watch.
Already, petty crime has been effectively legalized. Crooks get a free pass on the first $950 a day they steal. The casual larceny and other offenses that make life unbearable are becoming more and more common as liberal laws release criminals to victimize regular citizens. This is known as “justice,” as if someone who steals from a hardworking businessman is being cruelly put out by being arrested for it.
And now pot’s effectively legal here, which is spectacular. Just what Cali needed – more people on a drug that makes them dumber and lazier.
Take a walk down the street and see the sights! Look, there’s a schizo with his cargo shorts around his ankles baying at the billboard informing you about how no human being is illegal! Oh, and there’s another homeless druggie muttering to himself about alien carrots stealing his vital essences as he pushes along his stolen shopping cart heaped with refuse. If you’re appalled or distressed by this, you’re the bad guy. Caring means letting lunatics and addicts wallow in the elements enslaved by their insanity and/or sickness. Shame on you for wanting your kids to be able to play outside. Hypodermic needles and piles of human waste on the sidewalk are just part of the price you must pay to dwell in the sun.
This does not go for the nice areas. The liberal poohbahs don’t play that in their neighborhoods. See how quick a mangy doper wandering through Bel Air gets swooped up by the 5-O. This kind of virtue is for your neighborhood; in the ruling class enclaves they only do the signaling.
Take a drive down California’s famous freeways. Actually, not a drive – it’s really a crawl. Putting aside the potholes, there’s been a conscious decision to not improve traffic flow by making the roads wider to accommodate all the illegal foreigners that Sacramento has laid out the welcome mat for. This is intended to force us into public transportation, which the central planners love. After all, when we have cars we can decide where and when to go and they don’t get a veto. They hate that. Our independence and sovereignty gnaws at them.
They hate freedom. Well, our freedom. Not their own – all their climate change talk about sacrifice and stuff is meant for us. We do the sacrificing. They do as they please and preen in the moral spotlight for forcing us Normals to live like serfs.
When a Hollywood star or a tech titan gives up his limo or private jet, let me know. I’ll be right here, not holding my breath.
Which raises the question of why I am still right here in California, as I have been since 1972 except for my time away in the Army. At the outset, the “If you don’t like it, move,” argument is a garbage argument made by garbage people. This is my home and I see no reason why I should leave simply because I demand freedom and competent government. At least, for the foreseeable future, before the chaos comes.
Second, I like the sun, and I like the part of California where I live. You see, I’m a trial lawyer. Leaving aside that California’s idiotic laws make this place an Eden for attorneys, I live in one of the good parts, beach adjacent, surrounded by other people with nice cars, protected by cops who actually will take action. Leave my little Shangri-La and it gets ugly and grimy, but in this little blue enclave, everything’s generally peachy – for the moment. Out there are the peasants. In here are the feudal lords. Most of those social pathologies I mentioned are for them, not us. California is divided up into a few well-off people and a huge majority who scrape by. In much of West LA, or Silicon Valley, or parts of Scat Francisco, things are pretty nice. Everywhere else, not so much.
Of course, that can’t last. The snobs and swells of Cali can’t see that any more than the nobles of Paris saw the guillotine blade dropping. I expect to be gone before the collapse, with my money, but hey – I’ll be watching the chaos on Fox. You rich libs, please try to look surprised!
But, you wonder, won’t California get its act together before it’s too late? Of course not. It’s important to understand that there is no bottom, that no matter how impoverished, oppressive and generally miserable a land under the Birkenstock heel of socialism becomes, the cadres of the Red Guard will never shift course towards
freedom. After all, freedom and prosperity are not their goal; in fact, those things are obstacles to achieving the true objective – unlimited power for the leftist nomenklatura.
California will continue to circle the drain, and barring revolution – a real one, with all the attendant bad stuff for the ruling class – there’s no coming out of it. They’re dining on zebras in the Caracas zoo and yet the socialist revolution marches on. California is no different; it’s just a decade behind the Venezuelan vanguard.
It’s doomed. And what’s important to understand is that the liberal elite wants the same thing for the rest of America. To our ruling class, California is not a cautionary example. It’s the goal for our whole country.
Are you going to let that happen?
I saw a video on You Tube about this an hour ago. What stunned me the most was politicians doubling f own on their rhetoric and basically laughing at concerned citizens. Yo u have to think California must eventually be ripe for a Trumpslide. How much more can good people take before they stop voting for the same idiots
Why do you think the pigs in charge of that horrible place keep importing millions of third world dregs? It's because said pigs are stealing the state from the good people.
The federal govt should have stepped in long ago and put a stop to it. Jerry Brown should be in prison for enabling criminal invaders/crimigrants to come into kommiefornia. The entire state legislature should be in prison. As should many city councils. San fran, for one.
Politicians in kali are like children who have grown up totally and clinically insane.
There are good people in kali. But they have neither voice, representation or numbers sufficient to pull it together.
I know a few people in Cali and none of them vote Democrap, they say they can’t stand the Rats and that the people they you know are the same. I think there’s a ton of voter fraud going on there, that or they are allowing illegals to vote. Same on the east coast. The whole year before the 2016 election I was all over Massachussets (I drive a truck) and I saw Trump signs on peoples lawns EVERYWHERE, every town and very little of Hillary yet she won the state? Bullll...It’s rampant election fraud which is how Ted Kennedy was reelected for 50 years even after the murder. Where there are Democraps extreme corruption follows and nobody does anything about it. I like to say Trump prevented Hillary from stealing the POTUS election because that’s the only way she ran, her entire campaign was 100% dishonest and I think Democraps really believe Trump colluded with the Russians because they can’t believe he won, that the fix was in for Hillary.
MOAB Sacramento.
I don’t think there’s much chance for a Trumpslide in CA. As you would expect, the Commiecrats have their thumb on the scale, and keep pressing down more and more. It’s out of control.
“And hate them Sacramento does, targeting Normals with petty and not so petty attacks, from bans on straws and gun grabs to the threat of lifting the Proposition 13 caps on property taxes that keep millions of retirees from being tossed out of their homes when their annual bills go up 4000%. What would that mean? Well, when that modest ranch style you bought for $100,000 in 1985 gets reassessed to its current $1,000,000 value (something Prop 13 prevents), and the 1% Prop 13 tax rate goes to 3% or 4%, your tax bill goes from $1,000 a year to $30,000-$40,000. Remember that retirement you worked for? Well, now it will all go to subsidize the deadbeat government workers and welfare cheats that the California Democrats really represent. “
I hope they do repeal it. That way the people that keep voting all these deadbeats in will start to understand voting has consequences.
All three of these measures wipe out the conservative vote. Even though all three are egregious, the ballot harvesting, illegal throughout the country, is pretty nefarious. Squads of enthusiastic red-book wavers descend on a retirement community and volunteer to all the elders to fill out and cast the elders' ballots.
Viola! Thousands of Dem votes are magically placed on the scale of the electoral results, to crush the vote of all legal citizens.
When I lived in San Jose, I knew at max, 5-6 Republicans.
The rest were all RATS.
The first thing they did was control the media message.
“If its not reported, it never happened” has been alive for 30 years in Bay Area media.
Now that I’ve lived in other parts of the country, I saw the same pattern and now its here in AZ.
It’s the future they already have for you.
The mission is complete. We had possibly 2 years to stop it and maybe even reverse it, but it was not done. The country is overrun with foreigners and still, nothing is being done.
It’s over. They have won.
A more likely scenario is that the place goes into a slow-motion collapse as people gradually Go Galt.
You need people to pick up the trash, deliver groceries, fix the plumbing, kill the pests, and do all sorts of everyday mundane tasks. Once those people realize there’s nothing in it for them and opt out all of they foundation timbers will start snapping.
Let the mess that Kali-Fornia is in be fair warning to ALL AMERICANS!
A vote for ANY Democrat, whether it be in a local, state or federal election, is a vote against America!
America cannot survive a Democrat victory in 2020!
.soon we all can live in L.A. Squalor.
I lived in Southern California for fifteen years. We left in 1996. It is a beautiful state, and the climate unbeatable, and if money were not a consideration I would go back tomorrow. But it has prohibitive taxes, the state government is frankly insane, and the illegal immigration is overwhelming the state. It is devolving into a Third World hellhole in some areas with typhus and yes, even bubonic plague making comebacks.
It is absolutely criminal what the political leadership has done to the Golden State. And the electorate that has empowered them to do so is equally guilty.
Back in the day there were actually a few Republicans in Sacramento. There was a grassroots campaign to impeach Judge Rose Bird. Howard Jarvis led the tax revolt. I thought The Guvenator might stem the tide, or at least slow it, but he was neutered by the legislature and then turned into an enviro-nut like so many other Kal-ee-fornians.
It is just a damned shame....
A good and accurate piece except that Kurt Schlichter left out the role of the national Republican Party establishment in the destruction of California. They didn’t just sit idly by, they helped it happen.
The GOP establishment siding with illegal aliens back in the 1994 Prop 187 fight was a harbinger of things to come. Take a look at the political positions of Neel Kashkari, the GOPe choice for Governor in 2014, and you can see what they still want for California:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neel_Kashkari#Political_positions
“You have to think California must eventually be ripe for a Trumpslide. “
We gave Trump his 3rd largest number of votes in any state. We are just badly outnumbered by people who vote Democrat and the country just keeps importing more every day.
There's the real culprits, the No Border twins. California Democrats simply benefit from a national immigration policy that floods the state with people who will vote for them.
“Trumpslide.” That’s good. We should use it mercilessly.
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The “future” the LIEberal elite wants is NOT the future they are going to get!
A LIEberal day of reckoning is coming REAL SOON NOW!
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