This is a disturbing thread of people waving their favourite propaganda piece and judging things they may know about at best, third hand. What started as an interesting piece about a problem in Los Angeles (which I can see out of my window) has shown some truly disturbing open opinions from forum members.
California isn't a **** hole any more than London or Manchester etc. is. If you judge something by its worst quality, that says more about you. Whoever said everyone is leaving California for Texas is just wrong. Sure some people are, just as people are moving into California.
It is worth noting that "Right wing" vs "Left Wing" is very different in the UK and the US. I don't want to make the supremacist racists heads of
@deuse @thenewoc @Diddums and
@Chris Wilson explode but The British conservative party is left of the US democratic party.
The institutional racism in the United States is a proven fact, but it is vastly different from the brand of racism in the UK.
@Combat squirrel is unfortunately not doing himself any favours here by missing facts. It opens you up to derailing your intention and allows the crazies to focus on the factual inaccuracy rather than the point you are trying to make. You can't argue with old white men whose entire identity is built from years of feeling superior due to the colour of their skin and the false belief they can "pull themselves up by their bootstraps". We just celebrated Martin Luther King Jr day on Monday and this is my favourite quote of a great man:
The disturbing facts are the media with a right-wing bias in the UK is following the right-wing biased media in the US and importing societal problems across the Atlantic. The reason of course is it sells ad clicks and newspapers.
California has far too much liberalism as it has attracted the more crazy bleeding heart liberals from across the country. It has enabled both a homeless problem and a higher rate of crime in some neighbourhoods, the historical racism that the United States was built on then lends itself to a higher rate of incarceration to a disenfranchised racial group. You simply cannot fix that with crazy liberalism any more than you can with right-wing racist extremism. Simply saying "well you shouldn't have broken the law George Floyd!" is so widely missing the mark, it is disgusting to even read. It is the same as saying "well she was wearing a short skirt, so she deserved to be raped!".
As a tax-paying resident of the state of California, it disgusts me that we have these problems like the train robberies taking place. But there are systemic social problems that need to be fixed as well as improvements in law enforcement. It becomes a game of whack-a-mole, they are going to steal from someone, somewhere until systemic issues are improved.
