This post has been circulating around social media again in the past few weeks and it appeared on the walls of several California liberals I know as well being celebrated on a mailing list populated almost exclusively by women who are now or once were California liberals.
The réponse to it is, from my vantage point, unsurprisingly one of support since the people on the left have some strange ideas about the rest of the country. One such California liberal wrote this bit.
Sitting here after six and a half months of our Blue State leadership impacting my business and fundamentally blocking my ability to engage in free trade, I have a rather different view than the author of that quote. For one thing, I have been saying all along this is a violation of our liberties and called it tyranny. I got called all manner of name for taking that position, but I feel some sense of vindication from the recent Pennsylvania ruling where citizens went up against the governor and sued suggesting the mandates were in violation of their rights. Turns out the mandates were seen as a violation of our constitutional rights — 1st and 14th specifically. Is it really surprising though considering these leaders deemed some people essential and some people non essential which seems clearly out of alignment with the equal protection under the law clause of the 14th Amendment. San Francisco did that quite explicitly when they let government gyms open and said civilian gyms could not. And what about the lack of equality the California liberals expressed saying some gatherings (like BLM protests) are acceptable but not others (like a bonfire on the beach protest) and how can that not be seen as a violation of our right to assemble granted in the 1st Amendment? But hey, who cares about equality these days. . . it’s not like we have people in the streets fighting about this very issue or anything like that, right?
Meanwhile, despite the quote’s author pointing to “impoverished” red stated benefiting from the largess of the blue states, I’m not sure how many impoverished states are needed to cause problems for the California liberals to complain about considering our politicians here in California are do a fine job of working against our interests on their own. Here are a few examples for anyone who is unaware.
- California has 3 of the top five area’s with the most homelessness in the USA, which fits when you think about it because our California liberals seem okay with people being homeless and living on the streets based on all the ways they have both allowed it and, seemingly to me, encouraged it while in San Francisco, the city throws more money at it rather than offering sustainable solution to the homeless problem like some of the ones I’ve suggested
- California also has the highest number of homeless people in a state in the country as well as 4 out of the top 10 worst cities
- California has a biohazard and public health situation around poop so monumental it both made international news and is called a crisis
- As of this writing, California is the state with the third highest unemployment rate (13.3) in the country only slightly behind one (NJ 13.9) and two (PA (13.7) which is no small part is caused by how our Blue Team decided to run the covid situation
- Speaking of which, California liberals in leadership handled this covid crisis in such a way that despite the fact that a year ago we had a $21 Billion surplus, we now have a $54 Billion debt — in no small part due to business being closed and people not working, I’m sure.
- If you care about safety, consider that California has 7 out of the top 100 most dangerous cities
- Also consider that California has 0 of the top 100 safest cities
- On top of that, California is the state with the most cities in the top 100 for highest STD rate with a huge jump for San Francisco from 16th to 4th as well as the city with the highest number of cases in Los Angeles
- And finally, California is the worst run state in the country — with the bottom 5 all being Blue States whereas the top 5 are all Red States, if you buy their criteria.
Not that any of this matters — practically, speaking, it would never work as it’s written and this piece lays out good reasons why.