{"id":31873,"date":"2025-01-10T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=31873"},"modified":"2025-01-09T20:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T01:35:19","slug":"good-luck-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/good-luck-then\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Luck Then!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling blackouts, whole towns burned off the face of the Earth, multimillion-dollar shacks, endemic rampant crime, homeless encampments everywhere, endless drug addicts, legislated anti-white hate, LGBTQ lunacy, hopeless energy policies and an unaffordable cost of living.\u00a0 I could go on but why bother?\u00a0 California has become emblematic of absurd progressive policies and the disastrous effects they\u2019ve caused.<\/p>\n<p>And now when the wealthier parts of Los Angeles are literally going up in smoke some people are wondering if this is the moment when the Californians will turn away from the Democrats and bring in the Republicans to fix the mess.\u00a0 Well, they might.\u00a0 But if the Republicans are smart, they won\u2019t sign up for the job.\u00a0 Specifically, no Republican in his right mind should run for or even accept if appointed to the governorship of California.\u00a0 Well, let me qualify that.\u00a0 If the citizens of California also elected a majority of Republicans to the legislature too, then it might have some value.\u00a0 If all of the insane laws that have been passed in the last thirty years could be cancelled and the state could be put back onto a rational basis then it might work.\u00a0 But short of that it\u2019s a death trap.\u00a0 Look what happened to poor hapless Arnold Schwarzeneggar.\u00a0 The voters elected him to clean up the mess from their previous feckless Democrat governor but basically all he could do was preside over the freak show that the Democrat super-majorities in the legislature ordained.\u00a0 Of course, he really didn\u2019t put up any fight at all.\u00a0 So, nobody remembers him fondly.\u00a0 And the state continued its slide into ruin right on schedule during his term.<\/p>\n<p>Just as when we talk about New York trying to save a sinking ship, the reality of who the voters are in California has to be faced.\u00a0 The state has an enormous illegal alien population and an equally enormous population of people living off the government in one way or another.\u00a0 None of these people will ever vote for a Republican or anyone else who promises to balance the books.\u00a0 No, the system will have to crash so hard that the welfare checks stop getting delivered before the bread and circus crowd will pay attention to how bad things are going.<\/p>\n<p>So where does that leave things?\u00a0 Well, it looks like any frame houses in Los Angeles are just waiting for the wind and the arsonists to find them.\u00a0 If I lived in LA, I think I\u2019d get together with my neighbors and cut down all the trees and shrubs in the neighborhood and haul them away.\u00a0 Then I\u2019d invest in fire-proofing materials to protect my house.\u00a0 But most importantly, I\u2019d sell my house at whatever price I can get and move out of the Golden State as fast as I possibly could.\u00a0 Because every time some new atrocity appears on the ground everyone declares that it can\u2019t possibly get any worse and in fact this will be the straw that breaks the camel\u2019s back and things will get better.\u00a0 Well, I don\u2019t think that is even remotely the case.\u00a0 I think it will get phenomenally worse as more people leave.\u00a0 The tipping point is already here and we\u2019re just waiting for something like this fire season to find out things like there\u2019s no water in the fire hydrants and the firefighters are now overweight lesbians who won\u2019t be able to carry anyone out of burning buildings and the city has cut the budget for the fire department to pay for DEI 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