AT: For as long as I can remember, California has been facetiously branded “the land of fruits and nuts.” At the same time – at least until recent years – it was ironically acknowledged to be America’s innovative land of milk and honey.
In the mid-fifties, when I put my winter coat in mothballs and moved to Southern California, the Golden State was the place to head to, not only for the good weather, but for the generally hopeful climate in which one’s dream might flourish. Now the term “dreamer” is associated with those whose illegal alien parents brought them illegally to America –mostly in droves to the promised land of California.
When my young husband and I made the trek west from Illinois in the middle of the last century, we faced a forced drive across an inhospitable desert in our nearly new, un-air-conditioned sea-green Pontiac sedan. Even though we wisely crossed a stretch of the Mojave at night, it helped to put ice cubes into the car’s limited air vents.
Despite its economic and political importance, the Golden State has become badly tarnished – not that you would suspect as much from the recent primary election, during which slews of ambitious liberal politicians talked about defending “California values” as they battled it out to land among the top two vote-getters earning the right to continue their campaigns for five more months leading up to November 6.
Those of my acquaintances who live elsewhere in the United States are appalled at the very existence of California’s bizarre “jungle primary,” in which every eligible voter can weigh in on the same ballot regardless of party affiliation. (And some would say plenty of ineligible voters, too!) more here
Illinois to California…Out of the Pan and into the fire.
Growing up in Illinois in the 70’s , We always talked about going to
California….Of course Our Dreams were of Beach Boy’s California..
Not the Brown Shirt California.
There’s a great meme about California I wish I could post. It says, “Your vision of California”. The attached picture shows SoCal in all it’s rotten splendor. Hollywood, bumper to bumper traffic, etc. Next frame, “My California”, frames of the high mountain Trinity Alps, Lake Shasta, etc. This article describes that OTHER California.
Kali is a Granola Bar … once you get by the ‘fruits & nuts’ all you got left is the flakes
Southern California was a great place to live for the firat 70 years of the 20th century. Then the progressives gained power.
“California. Where all lost marbles eventually roll”
I hope POTUS ventures to California, specifically Southern California, and makes appearances in the districts which could swing red. His record is minority
employment would go a long way towards changing some voters’ minds
B Brad = So correct. Trinitys, Shasta, and many other places. God’s country.
The ballot had 70 candidates for the top 3 jobs. Yhr most disgraceful ballot in US history!
If the Middle East is the asshole of the planet, California is the asshole of the United States.
born and raised here, and I’ve always thought of this shithole as Sodom and Gomorrah
XRIRPATES
Sir your memory is very week!
Just 15 years ago we had an election for Governor with over100 folk on the ballot.
The winner ran on the most conservative platform since Pete Wilson. And his first year in office he was even more conservative than Pete.Here are some Ronnie like things he did in ’04:
1. Cut the taxpayer subsidy of “wind farms” in half. – this angered his friends in the entertainment business (naming names: Jabbar, Springsteen, Streisand) and they in turn got he’s Kennedy wife to turn him into a Bush. It is ( and has been for 30 years) well know to us bean counters that “wind farm” in a free economy would all die; some is 18 months or less!. Many of thos “invested in by Jabbar, Springsteen, Striesand would have belly upd by ’06 had Maria not turned Arnie.
But it helped our economy hugely. Almost got the State budget in surplus!
2. Cut the disability tax almost in half.
3. Killed the new car tax.
Now Maria did in fact make a Reagan man a Bushie; and so did by ’05!
But Arnie was 1 of 103 ON THE BALLOT – including 3 Stormy Danieals wanna bees who got almost 1% of the vote between em.