Larry Elder....really?

[jem]

One very interesting thing about our boom... is that Silicon Valley grew up around great educational institutions and our massive boom in Biotech and minor booms in other tech in San Diego seem to have grown around great and affordable education too. UCSD has something like 26 Nobel Prize winning professors and that attracts funding and smart people who wish to work and intern with them.


The people who set up the UC system and the UC schools and Stanford deserve a lot of credit.

 

[UsualName]

See a pattern here?

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States Trump won in 2016

• Idaho
• Utah
• Arizona
• Montana
• Wyoming
• North Dakota
• South Dakota
• Nebraska
• Kansas
• Oklahoma
• Texas
• Indiana
• Ohio
• Iowa
• Missouri
• Arkansas
• Louisiana
• Mississippi
• Wisconsin
• Michigan
• Kentucky
• Tennessee
• Alabama
• Florida
• West Virginia
• Pennsylvania
• South Carolina
• North Carolina
• Georgia
• Maine (with spit votes)

Grab a red and blue crayon.... and then take the test.

California was statistically behind 43 states in 4th-grade reading in 2009. It was statistically behind 22 states in 2019. It was statistically behind 43 states in 2009 in 8th-grade reading and behind 28 states this year. In 4th-grade math, California was statistically behind 43 states in 2009 and behind 37 states in 2019.

Ohh wow, SAT scores. Great. Let’s just forget about the welfare dependency, poverty and poor health of right wing states because those Iowa kids can rock the SATs. How does that translate into the overall quality of life out in the Midwest? Not too good.

 

[UsualName]

CA boomed under democratic leadership and heavy regulation, recently becoming the world's fifth largest economy.

Exactly.

 

[vanzandt]

Ohh wow, SAT scores. Great. Let’s just forget about the welfare dependency, poverty and poor health of right wing states because those Iowa kids can rock the SATs. How does that translate into the overall quality of life out in the Midwest? Not too good.

How's that murder rate compare?

 

[destriero]

Fucking c’mon. Ranked by PSAT scores. 8 out of the top 10 are Blue States. 7 out of the bottom decile are Red States; and that is only bc of AZ recently turning Blue.

Face facts; Republicans are dumb and Cali is skewed by a huge non native speaking populace.

 

[UsualName]

How's that murder rate compare?

You tell me.

 

[Ricter]

This result is one more example of why democracy is so important. The unpopular point of view in CA will get another chance to govern.

 

[TreeFrogTrader]

As with almost every state that booms...
CA boomed as a libertarian state.
Then the carpetbaggers came in... and gave away free shit... to attract votes.

Libertarian but also helped by the fact that it was very liberal even early on or attracted liberals early on- and traditional liberalism valued free thinking first and foremost. It was not necessarily a bad fit for either.

Versus the current breed of "liberals" who just want to find out what big government, big lefty political parties, big social media "influencers", and their select big tech businesses want and then immediately wrap their entire mindset and around it.

 

[jem]

Correct...

I find myself to be an old school liberal now.

I believe Reagan's ideas were only a blip in the history of the GOP and its reverted to is former self... with a pocket of a few people with good ideas. Its back to the party of the Bushes and Rockefellers.


so its a choice of neo socialism / crony capitalism vs... crony capitalism and mostly garbage (with a pocket of a few people with good ideas on both sides.)

The tax payers and workers of this country really don't have any representation in D.C. ( I would guess that its about 80% of the country though most fall for the bullshit platitudes coming out of the leadership and media.)

Libertarian but also helped by the fact that it was very liberal even early on and traditional liberalism valued free thinking first and foremost.

Versus the current breed of "liberals" who just want to find out what big government, big lefty political parties, big social media "influencers", and their select big tech businesses want and then immediately wrap their entire mindset and around it.

 

[wrbtrader]

California is California in no small part due to its weather, the ocean, the mountains, the deserts... it's flat out beautiful. For the last 150 years dreamers and doers migrated out there from places like Oklahoma.

Movies, tech, aerospace, other industry.... all built on the backs of those that came from the heartland. Born with conservative values. Dorsey and Zucherberg did not build California.

And here's the other thing, your "give away everything for free" society... its killing the goose that laid the golden egg. Companies are fleeing in droves. The average house out there is $820K. Cops don't make that. Teachers don't make that. EMS and fire... they don't make that. So you know what you have... a two class economy. Wealthy and servant. It can only last so long. The ride is coming to an end. Elder would have at least tried to right the ship.

What do you think about a DeSantis / Elder in the U.S. Presidential Election or maybe a Trump / Elder ?

Hmmm...the more I think about it...I think a Trump / Elder 2024 U.S. Presidential Election will piss off a large part of the Trumpers.

P.S. Trump / Pence is no longer a team after Trump told Pence he's no longer his friend.

P.S.S. I'm really just glad that the Kardashians didn't get into the Governor's office of California via Caitlyn Jenner. That would be fucked up.

wrbtrader