I can confirm the California issues. I am moving from California for that reason.I wonder how the Democrats can continue to govern states like California, despite the disasters they have produced in recent years. From what we hear here in Italy, California is now an unlivable nightmare. By this I mean that, unfortunately, the most competent and capable will not win, but only the one who knows how to best manipulate public opinion. I am very bitter and pessimistic, because I see how the quality of the ruling class in many countries is worsening and the situation seems destined to worsen.
The Governor is decided by 2 counties, Los Angeles and San Francisco. SF is largely so liberal they want to be given everything for doing nothing. Los Angeles is filled with Hollywood elites and super-wealthy individuals who don't think before they open their mouths. I offer up Taylor Swift as an example. To these people, it doesn't matter what happens, because they have so much money that they will never feel the effects on their daily lives. The rest of the state is pretty much conservative.
I would love for these people to spend a single month in the shoes of the average California. The struggles in deciding between food and gas, using the air conditioning of enduring the recent heatwave where it was 120 degrees F in the afternoon, and 90 degrees F at night.
-When we have to pay taxes so high that the cost of gas is nearly twice that of any other state in the country, and even more expensive than Hawaii.
-Where the electric grid is so unstable that that the people who bought EVs because the government said they were mandatory can't re-charge them because there isn't enough electricity in the grid for that.
-Where the artificial grass we were were incentivized to install to save water is now outlawed because of the potential hazardous chemical issues from the plastics involved.
-From the days when paper grocery bags were outlawed and replaced with plastic ones to save trees are now used to replace the plastic ones again, because of too much plastic in the ocean.
-Where I had to wear a mask at work due to COVID since I worked in a liberal county (Los Angeles), but not at home, because I lived in a conservative one.
The hypocrisy in the Democratic party is astronomical. They say the want to be inclusive, yet they fail to allow free speech, a fundamental right in the US. Where they teach young children unable to grasp what gender really means to switch biological genders without telling their parents, denying them parental rights on how their children are raised.
These are all Socialist actions, but they deny it. Yet they tout Trump and Vance as weird.