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2019-11-17 -Land of the Free

What Happened to California Republicans?

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Posted by 746 2019-11-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 The same thing that'll happen (IMO) to all Republicans (to all anti-left) if the current trends of letting judicial activism/loud minorities/bureaucrats make the laws of the land.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-17 02:48|| 2019-11-17 02:48|| Front Page Top

#2 If you accept that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link then it needs to be understood that the GOP is only as conservative as people like Mittens Romney, Murky Murkowski and Droopy Susan Collins. A party that keeps letting people like Todd Akin and Roy Moore run, thus flipping reliability red seats blue is actually worse than a party that doesn't even bother to contest many races.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-17 04:36|| 2019-11-17 04:36|| Front Page Top

#3 We left. If we wanted to live in Mexico, we'd have moved there.

Posted by Floling Elmease2479 2019-11-17 07:05|| 2019-11-17 07:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Neofeudalism.

The middle class is shrinking. S.t. like 200,000 middle-class households leave each year, replaced by a 10/90 mix of super-wealthy techies (10% max) and super-indigent illiterates from Mexico and Central America (90%+).

The best gauge of this mix is the California Dept of Education's demographic stats. For over 30 years, the CA public school population has been shedding middle class whites and adding poor Latinos.

Typically, the Latino share of the total public school population increases one percentage point each year. This is how the CA schools went from a bad-but-manageable 20% Latino population in the late 1980s to over 50%, and still climbing, today. Now for the fun part: per the CDE, which helpfully disaggregated the ed stats by ethnicity in great detail, Latinos - who now constitute an absolute majority of CA school kids - are failing at rates of >70% in Language Arts and 85-90% in Math. At all grade levels. For both recent immigrants and 2nd- or 3rd or nth generation Latinos. Failing, in huge numbers. Failing.

And this failing majority-minority is soon to be the majority, period, in the state. The thin sliver of great wealth along a few tiny coastal enclaves cannot hide the fact that California's social model is converging with Latin America's: neo-feudal oligarchy.

aka Banana republic. If youcan keep it, California

Posted by Lex 2019-11-17 09:33|| 2019-11-17 09:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Too late, GOPers. In the words of Yip-yip the First, Sublime Porte and Opressor of all Kuffrs. "Democracy is a streetcar you get off of at your stop."

Y'all missed your stop, guys.

Posted by Mercutio 2019-11-17 09:37|| 2019-11-17 09:37|| Front Page Top

#6 After three decades of radical progressivism, California residents are tiring of one-party straitjacket rule.

Not tired enough apparently.

This is the future for the rest of the country.

It's ironic. Federal judges did this to the state and now state judges (Aloha!) are doing it to the rest of the country.

Like it or not, #DemographicsMatter.

But keep flogging the Proposition Nation/"America is just an idea" fairy tale, "conservatives".

It's bound to work sooner or later.

Posted by charger 2019-11-17 10:22|| 2019-11-17 10:22|| Front Page Top

#7 So why is there currently not a single statewide Republican officeholder?

One reason is the recent voting rules change that gives the two candidates with the highest vote totals in the state-wide primaries a place on the ballot rather than picking the highest from each party.

The best gauge of this mix is the California Dept of Education's demographic stats.

An even more dramatic example is U-Haul truck rental truck rates.
A 20' truck from Oakland, CA to Dallas, TX costs ~$3,000.
Going the other way from Dallas to Oakland is ~$1,000.

Posted by SteveS 2019-11-17 10:38|| 2019-11-17 10:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Demographics explains CA schools' slide from best in the nation to 49th. It's ENTIRELY due to the shift from <20% Mexican/C. American to the current 53% proportion. Entirely.

As go the schools, so goes the state's politics and culture.

Demographics explains CA's slide. Stop illegal immigration, shift to skills- and points-based immigration, and deport re illegals -- and you might just have a shot at reversing CA's slide.

But if none or just some of the above happens, CA is finished as a middle-class, healthy, well-governed Democratic polity.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-17 10:57|| 2019-11-17 10:57|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ democratic polity. F---ing auto-correct.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-17 10:58|| 2019-11-17 10:58|| Front Page Top

#10 The thought police is everywhere!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-17 11:00|| 2019-11-17 11:00|| Front Page Top

#11 I find the Republican hesitancy to play dirty a hindrance to their overall survival in the long run.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-17 11:50|| 2019-11-17 11:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Some of us are still here. We pay the taxes so we can enjoy the ocean breezes. Stay off the freeways and out of the big cities and it's still pretty nice. Be sure to sign the petition to recall Gavin Newsom.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-17 14:55|| 2019-11-17 14:55|| Front Page Top

#13 As am I and my 3 4 generations (counting Mom). Native San Diegans

Posted by Frank G 2019-11-17 16:19|| 2019-11-17 16:19|| Front Page Top

#14 To answer this question is to ask why is Chicago 30% Hispanic? Larger than the Black population.

Posted by Black Charlie Ebbineque5764 2019-11-17 17:37|| 2019-11-17 17:37|| Front Page Top

#15 We left in January of this year, Gardnerville/Minden is close but the disaster CA has become. Simply could not stand it any more being exiled after 43 years because it was not longer America.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-11-17 20:46|| 2019-11-17 20:46|| Front Page Top

#16 Such extraordinary natural beauty.
Such a political and socio-cultural cesspool.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-17 20:54|| 2019-11-17 20:54|| Front Page Top

#17 The American identity cannot be separated from the values, assumptions, tendencies and practices of English reform Protestantism. Thanks to this culture, Catholics in this country have more in common with each other than Catholics do with their Irish or Italian cousins.

California's reigning techno-, entertainment, politico- and socio-cultural elites piss on this culture daily. The virtues of humility, self-restraint, politeness, immunology provision, simple good works, respect for the land and for common sense-- these Yankee and midwestern virtues are scorned by California's shitty self-aggrandizing elites.

These people belong in a Latin-style oligarchy-- Brazil, maybe, or Mexico City. A place where corruption is taken for granted, where hypocrisy rules, where the middle class struggles and the elite huddles with its servants behind tall walls and electrified gates.

F--- these bastards. They have ruined the golden gift that was California.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-17 21:07|| 2019-11-17 21:07|| Front Page Top

#18 * ~~immunology~~ common provision damned auto-correct

Posted by Lex 2019-11-17 21:09|| 2019-11-17 21:09|| Front Page Top

#19 California is due for an economic meltdown. Not sure what will heppens that occurs.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-11-17 21:25|| 2019-11-17 21:25|| Front Page Top

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