That's it Pedes,
I just sent the letter to my landlord informing them I'm moving out in 30 days.
I'm a business owner, in fact my husband and I run 3 business in the "Golden State" (an ironic name now a days) We pay thousands of dollars in LLC fees alone, our electric bill is over $1200 a month for our small factory, We pay nearly half our income in taxes and we and our tax dollars are leaving this shithole.
It's bitter sweet for me, I was born and raised in California by a based family who loved this state, I'm old enough to remember when it was a purple state and still affordable for most people. I grew up in a nice house, half way between the mountains and the ocean. We spent summers swimming every day and winters snowboarding or off roading. It was a pretty ideal life for a working class family. Over the past 15 years I've watched our state slide into the gutter.
Unlike most Californians with goldfish memory I know the exact moment when our state tipped the scales into an unrecoverable spiral to hell it was when Californians passed Prop 14 in 2010. LET THIS BE A WARNING TO ALL LIBERTARIANS, TEA PARTY, CONSTITUTIONALIST OR ANY OTHER 3RD PARTY GROUPS. They sold this proposition to us as a way to "get third party candidates a chance to be on the ballot" They said if we passed this prop that we'd have more choice, we'd be able to cast our primary vote for a 3rd party and not feel like we "wasted" our vote. THEY LIED. What ended up happening is we got LESS choice, in most Californian elections THERE ARE NO REPUBLICANS ON THE BALLOT AT ALL, there are only democrats, no green party, no libertarians, just DNC approved puppets... how is this possible? Well prop 14 changed our primaries so there is only one ballot for the primaries and the top 2 vote getters by quantity move through to the final election. Previous to prop 14 we had the old style primary ballots, one for democrats and one for republicans where the winner of each primary would pass through to the final election. Yes it prevented third parties from winning but the solution was worse than the problem. Essentially they changed it from a republic style voting system to pure mob rule democracy, the cities ALWAYS out vote the suburbs and rural areas. THIS IS A MICROCOSM OF GETTING RID OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. The worst part is no one remembers this prop, and a ton of people moved here after the prop passed and have no idea it even exists. They wonder why every politician is a democrat and don't have the sense enough to look into it.
Political amnesia, how could we ever hope to repeal such a "good sounding" prop... 'don't you want more choice in politics?' the left argues without looking at the results which only benefit DNC candidates.
So I hope other Cali pedes see this and realize the source of our problem, I hope pedes in other states see this and prevent it from happening in your state.
I'm ensuring I can vote Trump 2020 in my new state where my vote will actually count. Don't worry I'm sure as hell not bringing any Cali virus with me, fuck this states government. Besides my husband is from the state we're moving too so really he is just bringing home a new wifey he found while out on his late 20's viking raid.
Thank God, us based Lady Cali pedes need red state men to come rescue us, it's rough out here if you want a real man. I had to teach my college boyfriend how to light a pilot light for the love of pete!
Hahaha you have a great sense of humor! If it wasn't for winter we'd be there! Admittedly we're both hot climate kids and when we moved from SoCal up north even the mild NorCal winters were plenty for us!
Sending you luck in your battle against the Lefty invaders, remember comedy and ridicule pair together to make a powerful tool for social change. Lefties REALLY care about appearances.