While agreeing wholeheartedly that the system is corrupt, I do still blame voter to a certain degree, particularly at the locall/state level. As someone who grew up in Idaho, I've seen firsthand how people will flee a blue state like CA, OR, or WA over some leftist policy or policies and move to a red state like ID (or MT, or TX, etc). F…
While agreeing wholeheartedly that the system is corrupt, I do still blame voter to a certain degree, particularly at the locall/state level. As someone who grew up in Idaho, I've seen firsthand how people will flee a blue state like CA, OR, or WA over some leftist policy or policies and move to a red state like ID (or MT, or TX, etc). First thing they do when they settle into their new, non-oppressive state is look around and complain about how "red" it is politically, and begin voting for the very same dark blue leftists that trashed their original state.
Heck, Rogan said that part out loud on his podcast. I can't remember the exact episode, but it was after he'd made the move to Texas. He'd been telling his guest all about the horrors of trying to run his business and live in L.A., and how glorious it was living in Texas, but then turns right around and immediately complained that downside was that "it's just so red here." If these people can't realize that the reason living in their leftist states became untenable is due to the leftist policies enacted therein, I don't know what to do but blame them...
I moved from California to Florida, and immediately noticed that the heightened level of liberty can take a bit of getting used to. However, I'm firmly convinced that embracing it is the only solution that makes any sense. Hopefully Joe Rogan will come around soon.
I live in a foothills town in Northern California. When I moved here in 1987, it was a very conservative, red area with lots of 50+ and retired people. It's a highly desirable area, and over the years the moronic leftists from the Bay Area and L.A. have come here in droves, especially in the last decade. They drove up property values to the extent that the young people can't afford a house here any more. And they brought their leftist Democrat voting habits with them, so now this has become a blue county. Since I was here from so far back and have watched this happen over 36 years, I can say with certainty that to a large degree these idiot transplants have ruined this area. They never figure out how they ruined the lousy area they left to come here. They knew this was a better area but never asked themselves why it was better. They make me sick.
I saw the same thing happen just north of Napa County. I watched as libtards from Marin, Sonoma, and Napa counties sold their multimillion dollar mansions to escape onerous taxes and bought up two and three lots at a time removing the mobile homes and erecting a McMansion on the parcels followed by drumming up money for street lights, curbs, paved roads, etc. which forced yet more of the peasants out as well.
The localities have been (willingly) trapped in the central bureaucracy. All the sheriffs, health departments, towns, cities, counties, etc., just follow national guidelines. Our little town has rules for the community speaking at schoolboard meetings and city council meetings that are the same as basically anywhere else in the country. A few people at the top decide all the policies and rules and they are rolled out like a huge software update. Shameful.
While agreeing wholeheartedly that the system is corrupt, I do still blame voter to a certain degree, particularly at the locall/state level. As someone who grew up in Idaho, I've seen firsthand how people will flee a blue state like CA, OR, or WA over some leftist policy or policies and move to a red state like ID (or MT, or TX, etc). First thing they do when they settle into their new, non-oppressive state is look around and complain about how "red" it is politically, and begin voting for the very same dark blue leftists that trashed their original state.
Heck, Rogan said that part out loud on his podcast. I can't remember the exact episode, but it was after he'd made the move to Texas. He'd been telling his guest all about the horrors of trying to run his business and live in L.A., and how glorious it was living in Texas, but then turns right around and immediately complained that downside was that "it's just so red here." If these people can't realize that the reason living in their leftist states became untenable is due to the leftist policies enacted therein, I don't know what to do but blame them...
I moved from California to Florida, and immediately noticed that the heightened level of liberty can take a bit of getting used to. However, I'm firmly convinced that embracing it is the only solution that makes any sense. Hopefully Joe Rogan will come around soon.
I live in a foothills town in Northern California. When I moved here in 1987, it was a very conservative, red area with lots of 50+ and retired people. It's a highly desirable area, and over the years the moronic leftists from the Bay Area and L.A. have come here in droves, especially in the last decade. They drove up property values to the extent that the young people can't afford a house here any more. And they brought their leftist Democrat voting habits with them, so now this has become a blue county. Since I was here from so far back and have watched this happen over 36 years, I can say with certainty that to a large degree these idiot transplants have ruined this area. They never figure out how they ruined the lousy area they left to come here. They knew this was a better area but never asked themselves why it was better. They make me sick.
I saw the same thing happen just north of Napa County. I watched as libtards from Marin, Sonoma, and Napa counties sold their multimillion dollar mansions to escape onerous taxes and bought up two and three lots at a time removing the mobile homes and erecting a McMansion on the parcels followed by drumming up money for street lights, curbs, paved roads, etc. which forced yet more of the peasants out as well.
The localities have been (willingly) trapped in the central bureaucracy. All the sheriffs, health departments, towns, cities, counties, etc., just follow national guidelines. Our little town has rules for the community speaking at schoolboard meetings and city council meetings that are the same as basically anywhere else in the country. A few people at the top decide all the policies and rules and they are rolled out like a huge software update. Shameful.