My level-headed, conservative Canadian friend who is currently teaching in China recently sent me another social media video from the PRC. The video is of an American (I don’t know who he is) talking about California. Here is what he says: “In California, it has gone out of committee to approve slave reparations to be paid to people who were never slaves, to be paid for by people who never owned slaves, in a state that never had slaves. That’s like paying child support for a child you never had to a woman you never f****d.” That’s on Chinese social media.
The Chinese are laughing at us, folks. And well, they might.
What’s the problem with California? Why is that state so full of mentally disjointed souls? California has been called “The Granola State”: the land of fruits, nuts, and flakes. What’s going on there?
I lived in California for approximately 15 years (from 1979 to 83 and then again from 1997 to 2008), so I have some experience from which to speak. Having been born and raised in Texas, I can truly say that California—the people there—is...different.
As always, there is history involved. Many Americans moved to California during the Great Depression, nearly all seeking a better life. And while some of those folks were fine, upstanding, patriotic Americans (such people DO exist in California to this day), there were also many losers who were incapable of succeeding anywhere else. They tended to spawn a class of people like themselves—degenerate and mentally limited—riff raff. Further, the incomparable beauty of the state attracted countless irresponsible pleasure seekers who weren’t there to work; they were there to play. They became indigent, amoral, selfish, and parasitic. And, like rabbits, they multiplied in huge numbers.
California, of course, is not only an awesomely beautiful state, it is overflowing with natural resources and tremendous wealth. We could actually stretch the history of the state back to the “gold rush” of the 1840s, which also didn’t exactly draw the highest echelons of human excellence, many of whom stayed in California and contributed to the kind of populace that now exists there. Still, California has untold wealth; if it were a country all by itself, it would be the seventh or eighth wealthiest nation in the world. There WERE (and still are) good, hard-working people in California over the generations who labored diligently and produced an abundance of riches that the state has now been able to squander on incredibly stupid, immoral Democratic Party policies. But California does have some excellent citizens.
One problem is—and it’s not just a California problem—wealth too often doesn’t manufacture virtue. When a people or nation rises from poverty to riches, they want to enjoy that wealth. When “they have eaten and filled themselves and grown fat” (Deuteronomy 31:20), they tend to forget God, and almost as importantly, their offspring frequently disregard the hard work and virtue necessary to create wealth and rise to the top. Couple the incredible wealth in California with the incredible beauty of the state, and, well, a high quality, heroic, spiritual people of supreme moral character was not produced in great numbers. They want to play, they don’t want to work. So, Californians drifted farther and farther away from normality, common sense, virtue and decency—and gave their state, and now the nation, people like Kamala Harris. Ronald Reagan was probably the last decent national politician California has generated. The Republicans made a huge mistake when they elected Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. He was the representative of the district in which I lived in the early 2000s, and he is about as good as a California Republican politician can now get. But he’s still a Californian. Which means he’s a kook who can’t think straight.
It is not surprising to me, in the least, that the legislature there has lost all sense of reality, is totally outlandish and nonsensical, and comes up with utterly moronic ideas like the one mentioned in the video I quoted—reparations to people who were never slaves paid for by people who never owned slaves in a state that never had slaves. You have to have unconnected mental synapses to develop gibberish like that. But rats attract rats, and they multiply and swarm. Kamala Harris is a perfect representative of the current disconnected, abnormal mentality that exists in California. She has no business near the White House and would be a total catastrophe for the country. She’s a Californian who has fully absorbed their discombobulated, disconnected-from-reality mentality.
Now, I do want to say again, and make no mistake about this, there are some very, VERY good people in California. I had some dear friends there (most of whom have moved out of the state now), and I loved them infinitely. But, from almost day one, I sensed something different when I arrived in California. “These people are just a little...strange.” Even my best friends—most of them, not all—were unusual. And my apologies to those in California who are fighting it, trying to save the state, and are indeed normal, decent, God-fearing, patriotic Americans. You DO exist, and I know it. But YOU also understand that the morons, perverts, and oddballs far, far outnumber you. The Left loves the state, of course.
Kookery. It isn’t in the water in California; it’s in the state's history, beauty, and wealth. All of that mixed has concocted a political class composed of Gavin Newsome, Maxine Waters, the California state legislature...and Kamala Harris. They are simply not “normal” people. We see what giving them political power in California has produced.
America, please don’t put it in the White House, too, for the love of God and country.
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