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Most centrist Republicans value equality. They've moved further left to capture the moderates. The problem is the Berkeley progressives (the extreme left) has n

Most centrist Republicans value equality. They've moved further left to capture the moderates. The problem is the Berkeley progressives (the extreme left) has no concession in their sights. They want to tear down institutions and gut it out. Kind of how the cryto currency guys want to start seasteading and destroy the US Federal Gov but entirely on a different axis. I find race discussion from Columbia University linguist and NYTimes Columnist, John McWhorter, fascinating and profoundly pragmatic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gQj5bkUeAc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gQj5bkUeAc I am so worn out from all this. Living here in Oakland, I cannot, absolutely will not raise my children here. Actively seeking jobs in Texas, Florida, Colorado, Georgia and North Carolina.

nebula8804 5y ago
You know its funny I recently visited LA for the very first time for two weeks. (Im from the east coast). I was expecting a barren waste land because of all the talk from Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro about how terrible LA is. Instead what I found was a busting city with a lot of nice and interesting people from all walks of life. Did I see homeless? Yes, it was uncomfortable but after visiting many neighborhoods I came to realize that this right wing bashing of liberal places is exaggerated. California has a lot of problems and looking at the stats, it is actively losing population of people who make less than 100k. This is not good long term but honestly Texas or wherever else would have these same problems if they had this kind of economic gold rush in such a short amount of time. At the same time though it is not as bad as the right wingers seem to make it out to be. If the Liberals are to be blamed for losing people, its because of decades of promises and not ever delivering.

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Most centrist Republicans value equality. They've moved further left to capture the moderates. The problem is the Berkeley progressives (the extreme left) has n

by systemvoltage 5y ago

nebula8804 5y ago
You know its funny I recently visited LA for the very first time for two weeks. (Im from the east coast). I was expecting a barren waste land because of all the talk from Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro about how terrible LA is. Instead what I found was a busting city with a lot of nice and interesting people from all walks of life. Did I see homeless? Yes, it was uncomfortable but after visiting many neighborhoods I came to realize that this right wing bashing of liberal places is exaggerated. California has a lot of problems and looking at the stats, it is actively losing population of people who make less than 100k. This is not good long term but honestly Texas or wherever else would have these same problems if they had this kind of economic gold rush in such a short amount of time. At the same time though it is not as bad as the right wingers seem to make it out to be. If the Liberals are to be blamed for losing people, its because of decades of promises and not ever delivering.