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by BenThere » Tue Mar 24, 2020 2:01 am
California venues are justified in extending their cancellations further out as the people come to the realization that they are on a sinking ship regardless of Coronavirus. If California was concerned about Coronavirus it would clean up the Streets of San Francisco.
California is burdened by a monolithic single party dominance that has misruled and misdirected the entire state for the last 30 years. Back then it was a beacon, offering climate, natural beauty, a casual culture, thriving and dynamic economy, the epicenter of the digital age, and so much more. Now it has totally lost its luster. You can't blame Republicans for that, they are a small minority. No Republican has held a statewide elective office for a decade or so.
I'm from Detroit, and currently live on its outskirts, though I lived in Northern California for 26 years - I know the process well. You shake your head at each new political affront, but the peeps keep voting Democrat like they do in Newark, Chicago, LA, Sam Fran, St. Louis, Cleveland, New Orleans, and most miserable big cities in the USA.
The productive people move out to the suburbs and vote Republican. Life is generally very good in those areas still, like where I live, in the green belt where Detroit becomes Ann Arbor - safe, serene, bucolic, surrounded by picturesque lakes - I'd call it almost a country club environment, but that label would trigger some folks, so I won't. That's the same logic as why I don't wear my MAGA hat or have a Trump bumper sticker on my car - I don't want to get beaten up by a younger, stronger leftist or have some social justice warrior run the point of his car keys along the paint of my nice, late model Mercedes SUV. I can't put a Trump sign in front of my house for fear of having a rock thrown through my window. That's how many Democrats roll. Carrying this thought further, polling data shows President Trump at slightly under 50%, but I think there may be up to 10% more pro-Trump voters, but they are afraid to say so.