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Offline corbe

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Understanding the weird world of California conservatives
« on: November 24, 2018, 08:35:01 pm »
Understanding the weird world of California conservatives

By Ben Boychuk
Special to The Sacramento Bee

 November 21, 2018 12:12 PM

To be conservative in California can be frustrating. Republicans haven’t won a statewide election here in a decade. Conservative policy prescriptions—such as they are—don’t have much of a constituency where most Californians live. And the place is thoroughly, maddeningly, insufferably, sometimes stiflingly “progressive.”

Which, if you think about it, makes those of us on the political right something of a counterculture. Far out!

More than that, California conservatives apparently have an outsize voice in national politics. Vox, the self-styled explanatory journalism website, published a story Monday that attempts to explain how California conservatives came to form the intellectual impetus for Donald Trump’s unlikely political ascent.

Reporter Jane Coaston “traveled the length of the Golden State, stopping at conservative outpost after conservative outpost”—which seems to have spanned from the San Fernando Valley to Claremont, about 50 miles east of L.A.
 
Never mind the geographical quibbles. What she discovered is a conservatism of defiance, “isolation,” and “powerlessness,” articulated by people “who believe their views will never become the view.” Sounds like a bummer.

Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article222033155.html#storylink=cpy
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Re: Understanding the weird world of California conservatives
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2018, 10:25:36 pm »
Astonishing.  A liberal reporterette decided conservatives were worth "studying," like bugs under a microscope.  How big of her.
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Re: Understanding the weird world of California conservatives
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2018, 11:26:42 pm »
Maybe the bigger question is: why do they stick around?  Although, living in NY, I could ask myself the same question. 
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Re: Understanding the weird world of California conservatives
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2018, 07:49:42 am »
Quote from: Oceander on November 24, 2018, 11:26:42 pm
Maybe the bigger question is: why do they stick around?  Although, living in NY, I could ask myself the same question.

They probably stick around California for the same reason you probably stick around New York. It’s home.  It’s hard to leave a place you call home
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Re: Understanding the weird world of California conservatives
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2018, 10:25:50 am »
Quote from: Oceander on November 24, 2018, 11:26:42 pm
Maybe the bigger question is: why do they stick around?  Although, living in NY, I could ask myself the same question.

After living in California for 49 years I moved out this year. I had enough. I took my business with me along with several employees.
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Re: Understanding the weird world of California conservatives
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2018, 10:48:06 am »
Quote from: DB on November 26, 2018, 10:25:50 am
After living in California for 49 years I moved out this year. I had enough. I took my business with me along with several employees.

Congratulations!!! Unless Portland/Seattle/Denver/DFW/Houston... Hope you are happy, happy, happy.
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Re: Understanding the weird world of California conservatives
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2018, 02:41:04 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on November 26, 2018, 10:48:06 am
Congratulations!!! Unless Portland/Seattle/Denver/DFW/Houston... Hope you are happy, happy, happy.

@DB is near me.  Just in time for me to leave...lol.  Sorry, DB!  (Welcome to the Valley of the Sun, BTW!)
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For unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death — if you’re unvaccinated — for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm. Sloe Joe Biteme 12/16
I will NOT comply.
 
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