We have journalists like that, but they have been banned to Substack.

It’s a winning strategy to get as many people on the govt payroll and public dole. Along with that fundamental is all the people working in the private sector to supply the govt with products and services. I don’t know what the total number of those two groups is but it is almost certain they vote to maintain the status quo. Anyone elected that attempts to reverse this trend is doomed to one term. I can’t see anything but a total collapse of the dollar and, subsequently, our society if this continues. A nation wholly consisting of govt employees and those dependent on them is a totalitarian nightmare ending in total failure. It’s the stuff of which real “democracies” are made.

Democrats can literally get away7 with murder because 90% of media is a tool of The Party and has no qualms with lying.

If we had professional journalists that put truth above politics Democrats could never get away with the full blown corruption they currently practice.

The permanent and growing Democrat voter base is buttressed by the millions of current and retired public sector workers, their parents, their wannabe public sector children, their “allies” and everyone dependent on government (Democrat) spending including contractors and welfare recipients of all kinds for a continuing paycheck, which for employees is estimated by the Hoover Institution at $140,000 per employee. See https://www.hoover.org/research/140000-year-why-are-government-workers-california-paid-twice-much-private-sector-workers)

We have completely opaque elections thanks to the Gavin’s pandemic emergency decrees, and a moribund GOP that has not held a registration drive since 2013!

Just a couple of reason why this will not change, ever.. Get used to it, or get out.

I’ve been there! There are still “Jefferson State” signs on the highways. It’s so cool.

I hope you guys get your independence. FUCK those mother fuckers in Sacramento.

Yes, I just met a chick who is in Atlanta Georgia right now visiting family. Not my first choice of a place to live in but California is lost.

And she’s very significant.

FWIW, there’s been a movement in California (mostly underground) to split it in two. I learned about this in high school in the 6o’s. We even had an attempt at a ballot initiative a while back, which was thrown out in court. The energy is there, but the political will has not been. What we have instead is migration out of state. Sad, because anything north of Sacramento is beautiful, rich, and Christian conservative. We’re just outnumbered. BTW, a Placer county resident here.

Jeff I love ya man. But you and your significant other need to get the hell out of there ASAP.