Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
I want to thank the Democrats for giving me, a trial lawyer living in Los Angeles, exactly what I need – a big, heaping tax cut. In their reconciliation bill, there are plenty of giveaways for lay-abouts, losers, and grifters, but also for us living by the beach getting hit with huge state taxes rendered un-deductible by that evil Donald Trump, notorious friend to the rich who he…shafted. Anyway, the Dems are going to wrong this right and fix this manifest justice, though – they are going to make essentially all the money I hand over to the socialist clique that runs the formerly Golden State (and it is a lot) deductible once again.
Cool. Well, for me and other lawyers and similar blue state swells.
People often ask me why I stay in California, to which I reply, “I don’t explain myself to people – buzz off.” But if I were to explain myself to people, I would point out that despite being awash with Californians, California has beautiful weather, my family is nearby, and here I get to be part of the feudal aristocracy sucking the life from working people to fuel my extravagant lifestyle.
See, California was designed for lawyers and similar high-status low-lifes, and the beachside communities where the petty royals dwell do not experience a fraction of the hellish nightmare you see on TV. Oh, what you see is real, just not for those in the Birkenstock nobility. You see videos of hordes of hobos leaving their junkie spoon on the sidewalks and that happens, just not to the people that Prince Gavin of Newsom cares about. I don’t think he cares about me personally mind you, but he cares a lot about my ZIP code.
You can drive ten minutes from my castle and be worried about someone stealing your hubcaps. Once you start heading east over the 405 (That’s I-405 to people who don’t live in LA) real life comes and bites you hard, and the farther east you go, the harder it bites. The roads are trash – gee, I sure expect the infrastructure bill will totally make them nice again – and the schools are cesspits of violence and commie indoctrination, but the peasants just need to accept their lot in life and not complain. Their bitching would ruin our wine tasting.
Of course, I might have more sympathy for these poor devils if they had not lobbied so hard for the role of “Serf #3” in California’s production of “Game of Bums.” They voted for this. They got this. It’s all theirs.
There are bastions of normalcy. Huntington Beach, where I recently saw Ron DeSantis talk (he was excellent – if I ever have to flee, it’s to Florida, where they have two things I love – conservatism and huge, deadly reptiles), posts banners representing locals who are serving in the military. From the beach you can see the dozens of ships backed-up from the ports, which has got to somehow be DeSantis’s fault. So, there are places that aren’t fully garbage, just not many.
The problem is that the normal people who elected Reagan a half century ago have largely left. There’s this cliché that it’s all libs trekking out of Cali for red fields to befoul with their reeking ideology, but that’s not how it goes. The people leaving are the good ones, the conservative ones who work and do constructive things. In the last year, I saw an Army/cop pal, a conservative artist, and a couple Hollywood types load up the old U-Haul and move out. As a conservative in SoCal, I used to be merely lonely. Then I got forlorn. Now I’m about as popular as a Lincoln Project founder in a middle school locker room.
I don’t hide who I am. I refuse to wear masks in general – I’ll do it in a hospital because that is at least conceivably not idiotic – so I am an easy to pick out dissenter. I burst into “Let’s go, Brandon” chants whenever I see President * on a TV screen out in the world. I never offer my pronouns. As such, I represent – to many people I know – diversity. I’m a conservative Christian veteran cis-het dude of pallor with no different ablenesses, other than an inability to consume seafood of any kind. I’m the one of all of these things that most Californians in my orbit know. People are like, “Oh yeah, I know a guy who likes Trump. It’s Kurt.”
Those still here, though, are content with the stratification of our society. The state that invented the striving middle class has squeezed it between the ravenous rich and the welfare-collecting poor. You either wear a crown or a barrel in California these days; if you have a couple bucks, you have poor people who often speak with an accent watching your kids, mowing your lawn, fixing your car, and keeping your house. I bet we’re just one ballot initiative away from granting residents of Pacific Palisades prima nocta over residents making under $100K a year, and I bet it would get 63% of the vote.
And what gets me is that the serfs asked for this. The peasants aren’t revolting; they’re eagerly reinforcing the paradigm that keeps them toiling in the fields. The people who are eager to whine about all the petty annoyances that come with living here outside the castle walls are also the first to march down to the post office to mail in their ballots marked for every pinko Democrat the union bosses command them to vote for. We had a chance to make a difference in September. We could have fired Governor Hairstyle and put in Larry Elder and tried something new.
Nope.
California used to be the state where the future happened. Now it’s where the year 1213 is happening all over again.
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Pretty sure that even the “conservatives” leaving California are still more liberal than most of the people born and raised in places like Texas, Colorado and Idaho. The native Texans, Idahoans and Coloradans aren’t just making shit up about the newbies fucking up the place. California “conservatives” bemoan high taxes and junkies in the park, but if there’s the slightest chance that abortion on demand or flagrant sodomy are encumbered at all, they’ll vote for democrats – who give them high taxes and junkies in the park.
That’s the problem with wooing tech firms to Texas and film production to Georgia. And that’s why it’s smart to pass abortion bans – it scares the libs away.
Cannot agree strongly enough. 99% of the people fleeing coastal California just fuck things up wherever they land.
Tell me, who would know more of the horrors of war – would it be my grandparents that saw it firsthand for years on end of your grandparents that watched it on television?
Having lived in the area that the author writes about, I’m much wiser to the terror that Communism brings to an area than ANYONE that hasn’t lived it. Yeah, I had to retreat out of it to a place with some sanity but I’ll fight tooth and nail anything that remotely resembles the fascism of California.
You’ve probably just seen it all on tv.
True. Even the ones hardy enough to move to Far North Idaho are voting for every stupid tax levy that’s proposed. It’s getting to a point where 30% of your annual property taxes is actually property tax and the other 70% are the multiple levies they sneak through and add to every year.
I used to think Arizona was a place of rugged individualists who flip people the bird. While there are still plenty of people like that, it’s the positions of power and influence that have been taken over by people like the ones fleeing California and bring their crazy thinking everywhere like the plague.
I was thinking about the federal Government and how sanity can be brought back to its thinking and plans. I actually write a few emails to my senators each month, short and asking for common sense and the keeping of the Constitution in mind. But I think it just makes me feel better. I keep noticing that whatever the federal Gov. is doing, doesn’t represent my thinking at all. I’m kind of at a loss as to what to do. There really isn’t much to do civil disobedience about where I live. Maybe in the future, it will get so bad that people will actually show up in person at my doorstep trying to force their way of doing things on me. Then, maybe I can do something that actually makes a difference. For now, they are far away and untouchable. I think an article on what can be done is in order on TBP.
The native Texans, Idahoans and Coloradans aren’t just making shit up about the newbies fucking up the place. California “conservatives” bemoan high taxes and junkies in the park, but if there’s the slightest chance that abortion on demand or flagrant sodomy are encumbered at all, they’ll vote for democrats – who give them high taxes and junkies in the park.
Truer words were never spoken. Californians are a blight and rot on the places they run away to. They bring their inflated monies, buy inflated houses and raise the tax rates and cost of living in their new ‘home.’ They bring their leftist ideas despite believing they aren’t leftists, they demand equity for undesirables and their Christian values are non-existent. They destroyed Colorado and they’re working real hard on destroying the rest of the red states they invade. A pox on them all.
“They destroyed Colorado and they’re working real hard on destroying the rest of the red states they invade.”
Case in point. I would guess West Palm Beach area.
Gators gotta eat too
So happy you enjoy my Floridian governorship, Mr Schlichter.
I enjoy your articles and more than anything am feeling a bit of relief you’re currently staying where you are.
https://namelyliberty.com/gov-newsom-injured-by-moderna-booster-shot-source-tells-the-defender/