We talk about Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal all the timeIt's why they generally don't talk about how successful the liberal democracies of Europe are either.
Depends on how you do it. If you split off Inland Empire that's a new red state with a decent amount of population (~5M I think?).
This whole idea is Jerry "moonbeam" Brown's kind of idiocy. Fail!
There is no tax around here that democrats don't love. Be it, as it may, there are plenty of people who are sick of this shit and the ultr-liberalism that exists here. At some point, there is going to be push back. California is the nation's worst state for poverty. That's pretty disgusting for a state that boasts so much prosperity. Some of are tired of people shitting all over the street, sleeping in store fronts, puking all over the place, leaving syringes all over, etc. A river here is not safe to swim in because of all the pathogens, given to us by what I have mentioned. California has serious issues....liberals and their failed policies!
This whole effort is being pushed by a nutjob venture capitalist.
I don't have time to address all the crazy in your post but let me just take on the "worst state for poverty" bit.
This is the most disgusting place I have ever lived, yet the highest taxed, and the most immoral. Where else can you see a near naked man wearing butt cheek revealing chaps, parading around young kids? Yeah, Pride!
We talk about Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal all the time
We don’t talk about them because they have mild climates and significant US investment around WW2 so their governance has nothing to do with it.
You still haven't explained a causal link and the counterexamples provided of left-wing countries performing badly (or cities and states such as Detroit, etc.) seem to indicate that governance has more of a sufficiency relationship to performance than necessity. Looking at the relative performance of right-wing governments and seeing the same distribution of poor to good performance exists thus strengthens the presumption that governance wasn't the causal factor, certainly not the primary causal factor. When you can see places as different as San Francisco and Colorado Springs enjoying amazing quality of life and economies despite having radically different governing philosophies it's probably fair to downgrade governance as the key driver of that performance. Likewise if you flip things around and compare bad examples (Greece vs. Mississippi) it's hard to say it's left-wing or right-wing politics as the key driver of that performance either.
It’s as if economic prosperity is not directly and consistently attributable to one political ideology.We don’t talk about them because they have mild climates and significant US investment around WW2 so their governance has nothing to do with it.
The only problem with that would be that the new inland empire state would be an exceptionally poor one, on par with Mississippi. I don't think many people would want to create a deliberately destitute state like that.
How very bootstrappy and conservative of you.I find it ironic that if you cant make it in California, you blame the "liberals". Man up and compete, work harder and stop the jealousy. American "conservatives" have become too lazy, uneducated, and entitled.
You really know nothing about military service, the GI bill or the “welfare” of military service.Stop sending your kids to the military as a form of welfare. If you were a good enough parents perhaps your kid could mingle with the liberals kids at UCLA medical school. If they do use the GI Bill please make sure they actually learn something and graduate, don't use that money to buy trucks.
Is it that liberal policies enable economic growth, or that liberal policies are able to leech onto to already existing centers of economic activity? You’ve never asserted which liberal policies create economic growth.The evidence does indicate that liberal policies are beneficial, however.
Is it that liberal policies enable economic growth, or that liberal policies are able to leech onto to already existing centers of economic activity? You’ve never asserted which liberal policies create economic growth.
Is it that liberal policies enable economic growth, or that liberal policies are able to leech onto to already existing centers of economic activity? You’ve never asserted which liberal policies create economic growth.
I doubt it's either. More likely that the same things that lead to increasing wealth also lead to increasing liberalism (e.g. education), and increasing wealth means less need to cling to things that are antithetical to liberalism.
I think something you may be failing to consider is how disgusting people sound when they register their disgust in a vituperous manner, especially to liberals. I think this makes liberals disgustingly deaf and saying so won't help them to hear. I think a case can be made for public sexual decorum without expressing homophobia. You just haven't had a chance to evolve.This whole idea is Jerry "moonbeam" Brown's kind of idiocy. Fail!
There is no tax around here that democrats don't love. Be it, as it may, there are plenty of people who are sick of this shit and the ultr-liberalism that exists here. At some point, there is going to be push back. California is the nation's worst state for poverty. That's pretty disgusting for a state that boasts so much prosperity. Some of are tired of people shitting all over the street, sleeping in store fronts, puking all over the place, leaving syringes all over, etc. A river here is not safe to swim in because of all the pathogens, given to us by what I have mentioned. California has serious issues....liberals and their failed policies!
Two lessons here:
You cant tax people into prosperity
You can't legislate morality
This is the most disgusting place I have ever lived, yet the highest taxed, and the most immoral. Where else can you see a near naked man wearing butt cheek revealing chaps, parading around young kids? Yeah, Pride!
Depends on how you define liberalism. Western democracies are the product of liberalism as defined by its emergence from the Age of Enlightenment, so in that sense you are correct.Universal access to education is most certainly a liberal policy. Conservative education policy would be to get the government out of education and let those who can afford it get it.
Depends on how you define liberalism. Western democracies are the product of liberalism as defined by its emergence from the Age of Enlightenment, so in that sense you are correct.
Having said that, Democrats are hardly liberals.
The most successful European nations are homogenous democratic socialist countries with progressive tax policies, strong middle classes and fiscally conservative governments. FDR and the Democrats may have stood for that once, but not anymore.
The most successful parts of America suffer from increased wealth disparity and an almost feudal economic model. That is not liberalism.
Education policy in America today has little to do with education, and is instead a dance around either leveraging or mitigating the power of teacher’s unions.