Have any of these “liberal California sucks!” letter writers ever lived in a conservative state?
Go spend some time in Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri. Rampant poverty and violence. Rape is an epidemic, as are unwanted pregnancies, STDs, illiteracy.
Afraid of Big Government? The major employer in many of these areas are prisons. Their economies are powered by locking people up. The ultimate goal is to assign a cop to each citizen, one who follows you around all day writing tickets and kicking you in the ass periodically.
Taxes terrible here? Go drive on a no-shoulder highway in South Carolina, which is No. 1 for fatal auto accidents in the nation. Bounce along the washboard roads of Arkansas as your vehicle disintegrates around you. We have nice roads in California because we pay for them. How about assuming some of that personal responsibility you’re always whining about?
You live in a liberal democracy. You should kiss the ground of your liberal democracy. God bless the USA! If you want to live in some conservative paradise, Afghanistan is wide open.
Want housing prices cheaper in California? Leave. You’ll open up space for those of us who love it here. You can get a shack in Kentucky for next to nothing.
Sean R. Shealy
San Luis Obispo
This article appears in Last-Minute Gift Guide 2019.
Go spend some time in Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri. Rampant poverty and violence. Rape is an epidemic, as are unwanted pregnancies, STDs, illiteracy.
I guess you’ve never driven in LA or SF lately.
Great letter! I wish all the stupid, vicious, Trump-worshiping, redneck Nazi scum who live here but hate California would immigrate to some barbarous, backward, failed state where they could experience close up & personal what their nihilistic, social Darwinist ideology looks like when it’s put into practice.
While this letter makes its case more robustly than necessary, there are some kernels of truth in it. If you read J. D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” or the earlier work by Joe Bageant, “Deer Hunting with Jesus,” the states Dean Shealy mentions do have an inordinate share of the problems he describes.
Many of these problems stem from lack of education, ignorance, loss of an economic base, irrational tribalist attitudes, and a mistrust of “the government.” What results again and again from this” bad mix” are self-defeating behaviors and notions that keep such places substandard. Anyone growing up in smaller towns in these states and is motivated/ambitious, gets out, and doesn’t return. Those who remain are not going to make things better.
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