{"id":31875,"date":"2025-01-10T10:42:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=31875"},"modified":"2025-01-10T10:42:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:42:48","slug":"guest-contributor-war-pig-10jan2025-california-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/guest-contributor-war-pig-10jan2025-california-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Contributor &#8211; War Pig &#8211; 10JAN2025 &#8211; California, Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/category\/war-pig\/\">war pig<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I lived in Calfornia in the early to mid sixties. Nice climate. Cheap gas, but it was still horribly expensive real estate compared to other states at the time. There were enough reservoirs so that we never had a \u201cdo not water lawns\u201d restrictions. No brownouts, no blackouts. There were fires but the shrubbery that causes major fires was controlled and sensible and sustainable forestry practices were the norm. I was young and paid zero attention to politics.<\/p>\n<p>We lived not terribly far from Watts during the race rIots. I had no trouble as I knew the kids from school and their parents thought I was polite. Being biracial was also a boon. I had a foot in both camps and my parents had raised me to not separate people by exterior appearances. I also got along with the Hispanic kids as many of them had at least partial Native American ancestry, although most of it was South and Central American tribes such as Aztec. And since I never shunned Black or Hispanic or the growing (back then) Asian population, I was accepted in pretty much all camps. But since then the left has gone to extremes to create racial hatred. It began in universities then trickled down to elementary schools to the idiocy you see today. Any school administration thatallowed drag reviews in primary education back then would have been ran out of town on a rail.<\/p>\n<p>The left follows the Marxist\/Leninist doctrine of first infiltrating schools. California is their glowing success. Massive school systems, immense school budgets. Ripe for conquest. Then fund and incite civil unrest.<\/p>\n<p>In the early sixties California was doing almost everything right. Now they are doing almost everything wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>war pig I lived in Calfornia in the early to mid sixties. Nice climate. 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