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Watch_TheKarma_Burn 60 points ago +60 / -0

Or... imagine a California run by smart, ethical, ambitious conservatives... it would be the crown jewel of the planet.

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Side-o-Beef_Curtains 47 points ago +47 / -0

It was amazing in the late 80's and early 90's.

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lacker101 33 points ago +33 / -0

What happens when you try to import your voting base to maintain political power.

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Side-o-Beef_Curtains 20 points ago +21 / -1

It's a third world country now

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CillBlinton 4 points ago +4 / -0

Not LA

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ktbffhctid 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yup. I remember moving there when Deukmejian was governor. Then Wilson.

Place went so downhill so quickly. Left in 2008. Never going back.

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Side-o-Beef_Curtains 1 point ago +1 / -0

I moved away for two years for work, and moved back. The change was insane.

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logan34 24 points ago +24 / -0

Why do you think it became the powerhouse it was? The state was once all Republican run and lead the country in innovation and had almost decades of prosperity until Democrats ruined it.

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Dirk_Diggler 19 points ago +19 / -0

This. This is the right lens to see this through.

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NativeNorCal 8 points ago +8 / -0

It once was, I remember Deukmejian and Pete Wilson. California was a lot better to live in back then. Even San Francisco was pretty nice in the 80s.

Cali's government now is lazy, corrupt, and inept. They use social causes like climate change and diversity to distract from their inability to serve the taxpaying citizens and deliver basic reliable services like police, power, water, and decent roads. It's the normal degradation of government typical of left wing rulers.