California Fleeing: High Desert Residents Heading Out

Even in red sections of California, residents can't deal with the high taxes, fees, and regulations squeezing out the middle class and retirees.

This has been the Democratic Party's plan from the beginning. Create ethnic divisions, drive out businesses, diminish home ownership, create an ever-increasing dependence class of welfare recipients and foreign nationals, and entrench the power of public sector unions.

There you have California, a blue dystopia if there ever was one.

Packing up and moving out: People are leaving California in droves,including some High Desert residents

               

VICTORVILLE — Billy Joel’s classic tune “Movin’ Out” could be an appropriate theme song for the many individuals in the High Desert and California who have packed up and relocated to places like Oregon, Michigan, Arizona, Texas and Idaho.

Oregon might not be the best place to move. Texas, Idaho and Arizona are better places to go.

The Golden State continues to rank No. 1 as the state that has waved goodbye to more residents, about 143,000 last year, than welcomed those who have moved here, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report.

Even more than Illinois? I think those two states are tied for complete economic Armageddon.

And despite the state losing 3.5 million people to other states from 2010 to 2015, many demographic experts said there is no mass exodus from California.

But this story is not so much about the amount of Californians leaving, but about why so many longtime High Desert residents have moved out of the Victor Valley.

That means that Californians are leaving. I had cousins and an aunt who lived in the Barstow area, and they got fed up and left. One of my cousins lives in Oregon, another in Minnesota. My aunt lives in New Mexico, and another aunt lives in Texas.

No one wants to live in California. I am the last member of my immediate family still in California. What a tragedy, what a disaster the Golden State has turned into.

Mike and Velvet Ambuski from Hesperia are among those who have relocated because they wanted to live in an area with less crime, better jobs, friendlier people, improved services, less traffic and a more politically conservative atmosphere.

Hesperia has turned into another third world ghetto, complete with Section 8 Housing and plummeting property tax values and thus property taxes. It's a downward spiral if there ever was one.

The Ambuskis began their relocation road trip two weeks ago when they drove from California to Velvet’s home state of Michigan, a move Mike Ambuski calls, “One of the best things we’ve ever done.”

Californians who would rather live in Michigan! What is the world coming to?!

A former employee at Rancho Motor Company in Victorville, Ambuski, 40, began his new job Monday as parts manager at a Chevy dealership in Ithaca, just a few miles from the home of Velvet’s mother.

“California is just getting too expensive and the crime in the High Desert is getting worse by the day,” He said. “I think the last straw for us is when (Gov.) Jerry Brown came out with his new fuel taxes and car registration fees.”

WOW! Unbelievable. Charging hard-working Californians more just for driving has been too much for them to tolerate. What can we do to reverse this terrible trend? Is there anything that can be done?

A California native who is experiencing his first winter in Michigan, Ambuski said he’s amazed by the culture of Michigan, where “people are nice,” “no one looks at you weird when you wave to them” and everyone is quick to help their neighbor.

“The weather hasn’t been that bad,” he said Thursday, while the high temperature of the day hovered near 20 degrees. “As long as the wind doesn’t blow, we’re good.”

I stayed in Oregon for a week during the Christmas Season. It's cold, windy, and very grey outside. Not that much fun. Not only that, but residents are telling me that the state is getting bluer by the minute even though the cost of living is lower in Oregon compared to the United States.

As for Michigan, I am not sure if I could stand the rough winters there. 20° is cold!

Realtor Karen Sanchez, whose parents recently moved to Texas because the political climate in California “infringed on their personal rights,” said there is a “steady flow” of people moving out and moving into the High Desert and California.

California is a statist dystopia with all these Demo-rats turning the state into a playground for illegal aliens.

“Prop. 46 made a huge impact in our area and people are feeling uncomfortable and unsafe because crime is going up,” Sanchez said. “It’s unsettling to hear that someone was murdered last night, but in reality, this is still a very safe area compared to many places in California.”

San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said in 2017 that violent crime had risen over 20 percent in the High Desert since just a year earlier, the Daily Press reported.

That fast!

With 33 murders last year in the High Desert, the area’s homicide rate jumped by 11 from the previous year, with Victorville seeing nearly half the homicides, with 15 reported. The city’s total equaled the combined number of homicides reported in the city in 2015 and 2016.

McKenzie and Christine Weisman of Victorville decided to move back to their home state of Oregon after living in the High Desert for years.

Now that is really sad. Oregon expatriates would rather live in ... Oregon than California. I wonder what they will do when the crime rates skyrocket in the Beaver State because of the rising number of illegal aliens there.

“I came back to be with my mother, who is not doing well, just about the same time McKenzie’s company had an opening for him here,” Christine Weisman said. “Kenzie is working at the new Winco that is located between both our parents. We also live in Beaverton, where we had our son, Luke, buried.”

Before leaving, Christine Weisman said the couple had multiple conversations about moving because of the “worsening crime” in the Victor Valley, adding that, “You can only tell your scared kids so many times that gunshots are fireworks. ”

Children are in danger in the High Desert, too. The parents and the families that invested in the region are surrounded by military brass, both active and retired. The region still has a sizeable military presence, and yet the crimes rates are skyrocketing. This is truly sad.

“It seemed like the Sheriff’s helicopter was always flying over our house, with the bullhorn blaring some kind of announcement,” Weisman said. “I think the only things I miss are my friends and the sun.”

The weather keeps me California home-grown, too. I refuse to leave my home because of Democratic Party Brown Supremacists and their bigoted enablers.

Weisman’s said she was “surprised and blessed” when she received a call from a fellow mother who asked her about the “760 area code” on a birthday party invitation her daughter had received.

“I called her back and found out her and her husband both attended Hesperia Christian School,” Weisman said. “We go to the same church with them, our kids go to the same school and we hang out all the time. Crazy how they knew exactly why we wanted to leave the High Desert.”

A retired Sheriff’s deputy, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Daily Press “the increase in crime” in the Victor Valley was one of the main reasons he and his wife moved out of the High Desert.

“My wife couldn’t even go shopping at Winco without being accosted,” he said. “Something has to change when you don’t feel safe in public.”

WHAT?!

Another “major trend” are parents moving out of the High Desert to be with their adult children and grandchildren, said Sanchez, who listed several couples who have left their own empty nests.

Parents are joining with their children. OK, but let's keep in mind that all the children are living in every state but California.

After 47 years of living in Apple Valley, David Rinne, 55, said he decided to move to Salem, Oregon, the land of streams, pine trees, canyons, wildlife and 10-minute wait times at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Despite revealing that his heart will “always be in the High Desert,” Rinne said he’s heartbroken by the “growing news reports” of shootings, vandalism, theft and crime in the Victor Valley.

“It’s much safer here and people are more respectful and not so wound up,” Rinne said. “People give you a break in traffic, seeing a doctor doesn’t require a lot of waiting, the scenery is beautiful and car registration for any vehicle is set at $86 for two years. It really is a blessing to be here.”

My Dad tells me all about it in Oregon.

A retired contractor who painted “thousands of homes and businesses” over the decades, Rinne said he hung up his sprayer and brushes when he became disabled. This allowed him and his wife, Mary, the “freedom” to move north when their son Dustin, 29, and his fiance, Brittany moved to Oregon and had their daughter, Kaidynce.

“Dustin is a certified welder and he moved to his fiance’s home state about three years ago because there weren’t any good paying jobs in the High Desert,” Rinne said. “There was nothing holding Mary and I back back so we decided to make the move too. My wife was also determined to be with the new grandbaby.”

Rinne is one of several former residents who said they saved money in their move by selling most of their belongings and purchasing a large storage trailer for under $3,000.

So much to be saved by moving somewhere else.

“We took what we needed, loaded our cars onto to the trailer and headed out,” Rinne said. “I think we saved about $1,000 even after we bought new furnishings.”

Rinne said his son, David Jr., 35, and his family are eyeing a move from the High Desert to Idaho for work in the aeronautics industry, adding that his son is “just plain tired of the High Desert.”

“I miss the rock climbing, the weather, our dirt bikes, the proximity to the mountains, the beach and down the hill, but the High Desert just isn’t what it used to be and I don’t believe it was designed to hold so many people,” David Rinne said. “I’m just glad Dustin, his fiance, our granddaughter and the Lord paved the way for all us to move out of California.”

The state of California could house millions of Americans, but central planning from Sacramento has ruined the state completely, and was designed to ensure that fewer people would stay.

Several people told Sanchez the passing of Prop. 64, the state’s acceptance of cannabis business and California’s liberal leanings are forcing people to pack up and “vote with their feet."

“I’ve had dozens of people tell me they’d leave if they could,” Sanchez said. “We still have people moving here, but the High Desert is experiencing a huge cultural shift.”

Next week, the Daily Press will examine the cultural and economic impact that occurs when longtime residents leave the High Desert.

Final Reflection

The High Desert was a high point for conservatives, and yet it's facing the same cultural currents which had turned the rest of the state blue over the last thirty years. The city of Victorville has an arrogant, incompetent Latina named Blanca Gomez on the city council. She is a routine disgrace, not interested in doing what is best for the city, but only interested in pushing a racist agenda.

I can't wait for the voters in that city to throw her out of office. She is a true embarrassment, and I submit that she is a big part of the Democratic takeover ruining that state. It is so sad that there is an influx of dependents, criminals, and illegal aliens in some of the reddest parts of California.

I can't wait for Trump and Sessions to bust down the doors and demand full enforcement of all immigration laws. They cannot show up fast enough.

Letter to the Editor: No More Welfare for Illegal Alien

Once again, The Daily Breeze spends more time pitying the poor illegal aliens and their plight. They should be covering and caring about Americans in need, including our own homeless, foster kids, our veterans, and the 95 million people who are still searching for work.

Illegal aliens should not be the subject of compassion or sob stories. They should be deported. Of course they should be afraid to sign up for food stamps. They shouldn’t even be in the country!

Even legal immigrants should not be using public assistance. Many of my friends who immigrated to this country signed waivers clearly indicating that they would not take public assistance of taxpayer-funded welfare.

Again, I am so grateful for our President Donald Trump. He is enforcing our immigration laws and ensuring that Americans are placed first. The fact that his deportation orders are scaring illegals away from welfare is even better.

True Discrimination: Illegal Aliens Benefit at the Expense of Law-Abiding Citizens

Thank you for this analysis, Tony Ruiz!

Wake up Americans!!

Joe Legal works in construction, has a Social Security Number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted.

Jose Illegal also works in construction, has NO Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".

Ready? Now pay attention....

Joe Legal: $25.00 per hour x 40 hours = $1000.00 per week, or $52,000.00 per year. Now take 30% away for state and federal tax; Joe Legal now has $31,231.00.

Jose Illegal: $15.00 per hour x 40 hours = $600.00 per week, or $31,200.0 0 per year. Jose Illegal pays no taxes. Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited coverage for his family at $600.00 per month, or $7,200.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $24,031.00.

Jose Illegal has full medical and dental coverage through the state and local clinics and emergency hospitals at a cost of $0.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal makes too much money and is not eligible for food stamps or welfare. Joe Legal pays $500.00 per month for food, or $6,000.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $18,031.00.

Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for food stamps, WIC and welfare. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal pays rent of $1,200.00 per month, or $14,400.00 per year. Joe Legal now has 3,631.00.

Jose Illegal receives a $500.00 per month Federal Rent Subsidy. Jose Illegal pays out that $500.00 per month, or $6,000.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $ 31,200.00.

Joe Legal pays $200.00 per month, or $2,400.00 for car insurance. Some of that is uninsured motorist insurance. Joe Legal now has $1,231.00.

Jose Illegal says, "We don't need no stinkin' insurance!" and still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal has to make his $1,231.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, etc.

Jose Illegal has to make his $31,200.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, and what he sends out of the country every month..

Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.

Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.

Joe Legal's and Jose Illegal's children both attend the same elementary school.

Joe Legal pays for his children's lunches, while Jose Illegal's children get a government sponsored lunch.

Jose Illegal's children have an after school ESL program.

Joe Legal's children go home.

Now, when they reach college age, Joe Legal's kids may not get into a State School and may not qualify for scholarships, grants or other tuition help, even though Joe has been paying for State Schools through his taxes, while Jose Illegal's kids "go to the head of the class" because they are a minority.

Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same police and fire services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.

Do you get it, now?

If you vote for or support any politician that supports illegal aliens... You are part of the problem!

We need to keep this going--we need to make changes ASAP!

It's way PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!

This is a copy and paste... Feel free

Also, check out this video from Chanel Temple blasting the sanctuary city of Cudahy:

Donald Trump: Already Better Than Reagan

I was looking over the RNC autopsy from 2012-2013. What a difference four years makes. Republicans were all but written-off after what seemed like a winnable race for Mitt Romney. Then came 2014 and the GOP wipe-out all over the country and in the US Senate particularly.

The RNC "autopsy" actually--foolishly--concluded that caving on immigration and pandering to minorities would make the difference. They even thought that moving left on cultural issues like "gay marriage" would give the Republican Party an aura of "inclusiveness."

What about the Democratic Party? Have they demonstrated any capacity to welcome differences of opinion? Do they even care about the fundamental values of our Judeo-Christian culture?

Ronald Reagan, Official Portrait

Still, was there anything of note worth considering in the RNC report?

One of the most accurate and effective ideas related to the near-fanatical obsession of presidential candidate with President Ronald Reagan. Of course, there is a lot to like about The Gipper, which the Republican phalanx of activists should work hard to reflect:

• He was an outsider
• He connected well with everyday people.
• He cared about their everyday concerns
• He was not afraid to fight
• He showed strength
• He possessed moral acumen, and was not afraid to call evil what it was.
• He was a great communicator

We do not need another Ronald Reagan, as much was we need to seek out candidates who possess those qualities listed above.

But Reagan is dead, and the conservative phalanx in this country needs to do more than just look to the past and say Ronald Reagan 1,000 times. I still remember one of the most contentious debates in 2011, when every candidate on the podium announced that they followed Ronald Reagan's advice and tried to find some kind of hagiographic connection with the former President: "I shook his hand?"  or "He wrote me a letter!" or "I appeared in a photo with him once."

It's time to move on, people!

Now we have Donald Trump. Donald Trump racked up those characteristics and so much more.

He is very much an outsider. He was not a politician in any traditional or recorded sense. Oprah Winfrey asked him if he was thinking about running for President ... in 1988. He toyed with the idea for the 2000 election, but did not run. After all, he was a Reform Party candidate at the time.

He connects will with everyday people. I saw videos of Donald Trump talking with employees in his hotels He put himself in their shoes and did their work, He was really impressed with how hard they worked. The employees were shocked and  moved out how much he cared about their daily tasks.

He didn't hide nor apologize for his wealth, either. He did respect the work of laborers and tradesmen, though. That's important.

Reagan treaded more softly on immigration, which had not broadened into the serious issue which it has become today. He signed off on amnesty in 1986. Trump promised to build the wall which never came up when at the end of the Reagan Administration. Reagan slowed the growth of government, but Trump is already taking a battle ax to spending and bureaucracy.

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Reagan cut taxes, but did nothing about the massive spending and debt. Trump and his Republican Congress will have no choice this time. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are overburdened. There are more retirees than workers, and the Baby Boomers are getting older but living longer.

While Reagan fought against international communism, Trump must face Islamic Terrorism, in which the rogue fatalists kill themselves in order to destroy as many of their opponents as possible. They have no moral equivalence or self-imposed set of limitations.

Trump has already rescinded the ban on taxpayer dollars for international abortions. He has signed off on the construction of the Dakota and Keystone pipelines. He has negotiated personally with corporations and large firms. He is restoring American prestige after two failed terms from a confirmed anti-American liberal fascist.

Ronald Reagan had to clean up the mess after only one term of the Peanut Farmer from Georgia.

Trump has a coalition of conservative agenda items to advance, and has done more in one week than Obama did in eight years. Trump has undone more of Obama's petty legacy than Reagan did of Carter's failed one term in one week, too.

What OC Register Gets Wrong About The CA GOP - And What The CA GOP Needs to Get Right

Once again, the press whines about the fate of the California Republican Party.

What they should lament is their dwindling sales, readership, and circulation.

As Middle-income earners flee California, and as more Democrats define the politics of this state, there will be fewer people reading their propaganda.

Generally, I have a better opinion of the OC Register. The editorial readership tends libertarian, and the previous parent company attempted an expansion into Long Beach and Los Angeles.

It was short-lived, sadly.

With Election 2016 drawn to a close, the post mortem has begun on the California GOP which lost Assembly and State Senate seats. Democrats have re-captured their supermajority, however tenuous.

What will happen to the Republicans? Is there any hope for us? We have the Presidency, and our party controls Congress.

Republicans have swept governorships and state legislatures across the country.

But in California, we took a dive, a left-turn for the worse.

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Struggling state Republican party faces deep divide

A new president usually lifts all boats in his party.

But Donald Trump lost California by a 2-1 margin, the worst loss for a major-party presidential nominee here since 1936. The Republican share of the state’s voters is 26 percent and shrinking, and the party faces a deep divide on how to reverse its fortunes.

At one time it was 29%. Now it's slipping. Migration and frustration are taking their toll on the state party and the registration. Prop 14 has not helped.

Many say the party needs to soften its posture on undocumented immigrants and social issues to attract more Latino, Asian and young voters.

The language alone is so biased. "Undocumented"? Really? How about "illegal"? Does the Republican  Party want to take cues from the press?

How can anyone expect to win minority voters who are pro-family by embracing liberal views? Again, the liberal press and their press junkies are the last ones to go for advice. More to follow:

Others, particularly in the GOP’s traditional voter base, counter that Trump’s victory nationwide is proof that a stronger stance is called for.

Yes. Caving on principles has actually driven people away from the Republican Party. Orange County is still conservative, for example, but Republicans are not voting, or they leaving.

At stake is the very relevance of the Republican Party in California.

The party has lost relevance, but the party system in general is under attack because of Proposition 14, which has eliminated the closed primaries and eliminated a number of Republican contenders in races throughout the state, including Los Angeles County.

“Logically, they cannot win elections the way they’re going,” said Raphael Sonenshein, executive director of CSU Los Angeles’ Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs. “But if they go a different direction, it’s going to create a big fight within the party.”

Do I really care what Raphe Sonenshein thinks? This man is an uber-liberal from Cal State Los Angeles. He is a mouth-piece for left-wing dogmas of all kinds. I have no interest in what this man thinks about conservative values or politics.

He is a blight on the discussion! The last person that anyone should cater to is this guy!

But he does have a point on one matter--lurching the party to the left (or the "center" as the more politically correct like to claim) is going to create a YUGE fight. It already has, since the 2015 convention, which saw the removal of "illegal alien" from

The dilemma reared its head Dec. 5, the first day of the state legislative session.

The 72 Democrats in the Assembly and Senate all voted for a resolution critical of President-elect Donald Trump’s various campaign proposals on immigration. Two Republicans supported it, voting with Democrats, and 19 abstained. Only 17 Republicans stood with the incoming GOP president and voted against it.

Republican lawmakers are behaving in a gutless fashion. The disarray on key values is deeply disturbing. Republican Assembly minority leader did not help matters when he claimed that Donald Trump was "divisive" while slamming the Democratic Party majority's show-boating with two offensive resolutions against "mass deportation."

“The bill (said) a lot of good things about the contributions of immigrants,” said Sen. Janet Nguyen, R-Fountain Valley, a Vietnamese immigrant who abstained. “I’m a product of that. ... My family was on welfare and I have held minimum-wage jobs. Not everybody who is on welfare is abusing the system.”

She needs to understand that "immigrant" must apply to those individuals who entered the country legally. "When words lose their meaning, the people lose their freedom.'

While she objected to the combative approach of Democrats, she supported many aspects of the resolution. Republicans, she said, should focus on common ground for all Californians.

The issue is no longer about common ground. It's all about trying to stop the Democratic demagogues from running the state of California into the ground!

We need a principled, consistent opposition in Sacramento, and right now it's simply not happening!

“We need to be able to talk about health care and education, and continue to talk about jobs and the economy,” she said.

But why don't we? The Democratic colossus is only interested in consolidating more power for the left-wing aristocracy of public sector union guilds, welfare queens, and illegal aliens. We the People are turning into serfs and second-class citizens in our country. One limited interest gets to dictate its policies and force its agenda at the expense of everyone else. This is corrupt. This is evil. This is wrong.

And it needs to be confronted. Playing nice is not working. Republicans in Sacramento either need to be ready for a fight, or need to go home and let someone else serve in the state legislature. I remember reading about one Inland Empire Republican who just decided to quit because he "got tired and frustrated with working in the state legislature."

Did he really think that it was going to be tea and cake up there? We expect our elected officials to put up some kind of fight.

Most of them are just collecting a paycheck, layering up their resume, then looking for a cushy local job to retire early into guaranteed incumbency.

Raphael, go away. Just go away!

Nguyen, a former county supervisor and city council member, is one model for Republican success. While her working-class district has more Democratic voters than Republicans and more Latino voters than Vietnamese, she easily beat former Assemblyman Jose Solorio, a Latino Democrat, to claim her seat in 2014.

It was an incredibly low voter turnout. It was so low, that Democratic lawmakers in the Southeastern stretches of Los Angeles County finished below 60%. That never happens. Republicans should not have to depend on very low turnout to win.

It would be nice to enforce voter integrity in California. How about Voter ID? How about repealing the ridiculous and criminal automatic "Motor Voter" law?!

Nguyen supports a pathway to legal status for most of those in the country illegally and empathizes with families fearful of being broken up because of deportation.

NO! HELL NO!

Legal status would be terrible. We would have a permanent under-class of migrants, just like in France, where violence and lawlessness become the norm.

Sorry, Republicans, but winning elections is about standing on principle, and winning that way. Or not talking about certain issues altogether. Why are local and state legislative officials talking about immigration? That issue belongs to Congress, to the federal government.

Redlands’ John Berry, a California coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots, is on the other side of the GOP divide. He wants undocumented immigrants deported.

There we go again. "Undocumented" is all wrong. "Illegal alien." Republicans should not roll over for every idea from the press. To solve some of these problems, however, requires stiff resistance to this leftist lunacy from President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress.

Also notice no reference to stopping public  sector union abuse? Or what about ending welfare abuse?

Not a word. Why is that?!

“Republicans need to take tough stances on social issues and immigration,” he said. “Like so many Republicans, I’m very frustrated with the California Republican Party. They don’t stand up for anything.”

"Tough", "true", "accurate"  -- I am open to all of these terms. Principled is a good word, too.

He said Tea Party activists knocked on 15,000 doors in his hometown on behalf of Trump.

What about representative reforms? How about enacting  Proportional representation, in which Presidential candidates win electoral votes based on the number of Congressional districts they carry--just like Nebraska and Maine?

“Our key issue was illegal immigration, and our people were well-received,” Berry said. He believes the issue can attract Latino and Asian citizens to the party, arguing that Trump did better with those groups than Mitt Romney did four years ago.

I like that word "Citizen." And the demographics in this state will shift one way or another. There are more Asian immigrants entering our state--and Asian illegal aliens, too. Those who entered this country legally, who have formed ties and built families, become more conservative over time. They will be ready to join GOP ranks, if only people will show up and bring them in.

Exit polling by the National Election Pool, whose data are used by TV networks and The New York Times, found that 29 percent of both Latinos and Asians voted for Trump. Romney received 21 percent of the Latino vote and 18 percent of the Asian vote, according to the group.

More minorities voted for Trump. Guess what? He reached out to them and he connected with them moreso in swing states. California is too large, and the media markets are so expensive. The ground game is shot, as well.

Where is the coordination? Where are the Central Committees to work with grassroots leaders and activists to make a difference in the state?

“As they establish their roots in this country, they see how illegal immigrants are hurting the country,” he said, saying undocumented workers undercut wages, among other things.

Repeat after me, liberal media: ILLEGAL ALIEN!

But others dismiss that part of the National Election Pool’s exit polling, calling it an unreliable outlier in measuring minority voter sentiment. Sonenshein is among those who favor Latino Decisions’ bilingual polling of Latino voters, which showed 18 percent favored Trump nationwide.

What did I tell you about Raphe boy? He is bad news, a left-wing pundit who wants everyone and everything to reflect his backward, disgusting illiberal views.

A ground plan

Jim Brulte, chairman of the California Republican Party, is intensely aware of the need to connect better with the growing populations of Latinos (now 28 percent of the state’s voting-age citizens) and Asians (11 percent).

Sitting on a post-election panel last month, Brulte laid out the future demographics in stark terms: Of Californians who will reach voting age in the next decade, 52 percent are Latino and 11 percent are Asian. Just 16 percent of Latinos and 23 percent of Asians now register as Republican, he said.

I do not agree with the Chairman on this assessment. I told him plainly and respectful. Goodness knows that I have shared my massive disagreements with the man. Focus on demographics alone is not reliable, anyway. These numbers will change.

“We didn’t get in trouble overnight,” he said at the event, held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. “It took 30 years. And we’re not going to be out of trouble” overnight.

What are some disturbing trends which overtook California in those 30 plus years?

1. Forced unionism for public employees.
2. Expanded public benefits for non-workers
3. Open border, illegal alien inducements/entitlements.

All of these programs have to be reformed, reduced, and removed.

California is not historically a Democratic stronghold. Since 1920, it’s voted for the Democratic presidential nominee 13 times and the Republican 12 times. It voted for the Republican every election from 1968 to 1988.

No kidding.

But it’s gone with the Democrat each year since. Every statewide elected official, including the governor and both U.S. senators, is a Democrat, and the state’s congressional delegation skews heavily Democratic, 39-14. Democrats also picked up four seats this election in the state Legislature, giving the party a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers.

Thank you, Prop 14, for removing our chance to have Republican lawmakers running for statewide office, particularly the United States Senate.

“California is a state that wants to vote Democratic,” Brulte said at the event. “It’s going to be that way for a long time. It’s been trending that way for a long time. And now the Democrats get to own it. I’m fascinated by who they’re going to blame when the economy cycles down and the mythology that we have a balanced budget exposes itself.”

Trends can change, but these changes will require force from on high, from the federal government.

But he’s also not sitting idly on the sidelines.

“Our plan has been to rebuild from the ground up,” he said.

That means tilling the fields at the school board, city council and county supervisor level. While demographic changes have pushed Democrats to within 4 percentage points of Republicans among voters in the traditional GOP stronghold of Orange County, all five of the county supervisors are Republicans – as are the vast majority of city council members.

Now the good news trickles in. Republicans are kicking butt at the local level. Republicans have taken over the Board of Supervisors in Orange and San Diego Counties!

How about that! Republicans also can Board seats in San Luis Obispo County, too.

Republicans, who have a dedicated organization called Grow Elect to recruit and support Latino candidates, also boast that they now have two Latino Republicans on the school board in heavily Democratic Santa Ana.

Yes.

Republicans also hold all five seats on the board of supervisors in San Diego County, where Democratic voters outnumber Republicans.

Part of the GOP’s success on the local level has to do with the relative absence of partisan immigration and social issues. In that, lies a lesson.

More importantly, Republicans are not corrupt and given over to special interest conniving, like the Democrats.

“The challenge going forward is to find issues that the base and the rapidly growing new voter group agree on,” Brulte told the Register. He pointed specifically to charter schools as a winning issue for low-income areas and to GOP-favored initiatives to create jobs.

YES!

“The way you grow any organization is to focus on the issues that unite you and divide the other side,” he said.

“If we can ever figure out how to get it right, we will provide a road map for the country,” he added. “Because the country is looking a lot more like California.”

 I disagree with this assessment.

The country is not turning into California.

Californians are fleeing California.

Transcendent candidates

But having a strategy and actually turning around the steady declines are two different things. That’s especially true with illegal immigration rooted as a central issue for much of the GOP’s traditional base and unlikely to be easily reconciled between the two Republican factions.

“For internal reasons, it’s going to be quite difficult for them to change in California,” Sonenshein said.

The first change and the easiest change? Stop listening to liberal lunacy, like the self-important pontificating of college professors who want an aggressive left-wing agenda devouring the state of California.

Immigration aside, the state’s voters gave plenty of other signals in November that they prefer left-leaning policies, approving ballot measures legalizing recreational marijuana use, increasing gun control and banning plastic bags.

Yes. This is a huge problem, the result of the leftist take over of education, from K-12 to college (although colleges are starting to look more and more like bigger versions of kindergarten, complete with safe spaces and snacks for the adult children).

But examples of what has worked for California Republicans come up repeatedly, and they are often stories of individuals like Nguyen who transcended political partisan labels by tapping directly into the gestalt of their communities. San Diego’s Kevin Faulconer and Fresno’s Ashley Swearengin, both Republican mayors of Democratic cities, are among others mentioned as doing the same.

Faulconer is losing more supporter, and Ashley Swearingen is embracing the very policies which are ruining the state, including Governor Brown's crazy train and the Cap and Tax program.

Who needs Republicans like these?!

“You spend all this time discussing what the party should do and then somebody shows up and runs with a message different than the party and they win,” Sonenshein said, citing both Trump and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as such renegades.

God bless Donald Trump. Schwarzenegger sucked.

After Romney’s 2012 loss, the Republican Party produced a road map for the future that called for numerous changes, including an approach to immigration reform that would appeal more to Latinos and social policies that were more in tune with young voters.

This is wrong. It's time to stand for our values and educate others rather than abandoning them and caving to the Democratic failures.

Trump turned his back on many of those recommendations – as well as some more traditional GOP positions, including free trade – and created his own winning formula.

HE WON! He resonated with vast swaths of the country.

California is out of joint. We are not on the cutting edge. We are getting left behind. California is backward, lost, regressive.

“You don’t create a candidate by talking about direction the party should go,” Sonenshein said. “The candidate shows up and defines themself.”

"Define themself." Yes, a college professor actually wrote that.

Another reason to write him off and not listen to his lunacy.

Final Reflection

Conservatives need to accept that this is a culture war, not just politics.

I think that Republicans in general are just tinkering around the edges and staving off the death spiral by shifting away from the values and principles which define the party. All of this is fundamentally irrelevant when public sector unions can buy politicians and purchase assembly seats without thinking twice about it.

How more of those who vote for a living are outwinning those who work for a living? How long can this anti-economic insanity continue?

Some cynical voices in the state and in the party have suggested that the state of California may have to collapse under its own weight. The free ride on taxpayer hides cannot last forever. Detroit eventually went bust. So will San Francisco and Los Angeles.

And We the People are going to get tired of the public safety concerns going unnoticed by our elected officials, who are more committed to protect their jobs and Theiler legacy instead of protecting our rights.

Why Hawaii Has Gone Full Liberal

California is not the only deep blue state in the country which got bluer on Election Day.

Hawaii is now so blue, it's almost black.

Republicans lost one seat in the state house. The GOP numbers are abysmal: 45 Democrats to 6 Republicans.

The state senate is far worse.

At its founding, Hawaii had a Republican Governor and a Republican US Senator named Hiram Fong.

But Democratic dominance has transformed the state into a true blue dystopia for those who live there.

After Election 2016, Democrats won UNANIMOUS control of the upper chamber.

The sole Republican, Sam Slom, lost his seat in this election.

Haven't the Hawaiian people had enough of uber-liberal policies, which have raised costs precipitously in the state?

Blue Hawaii, indeed, and it's not just a song or a movie:

What has happened the moral core of Hawaii, too?

Check out Bill O'Reilly's spirited interview with Colleen Hanabusa, who just regained her Congressional seat this past election:

For starters, O'Reilly lists the disturbing rate of homelessness and food-stamps in the state.

Who would have known?

Check his further remarks here:

Regardless of Rep. Hanabusa's offense at some of his prior comments, Hanabusa sunk herself and exposed how corrupt and decrepit the political culture of his state has become.

OUCH!

For better context, their fight focused on Watters' World's report in Hawaii--and why the state is so liberal. He even asked people who lived there for their opinion:

How did all of this happen?

Rich California liberalism.

Lack of law enforcement.

Democratic dominance.

Welfarism.

The whole list is a perfect storm for destructive Democratic dominance.

What did Huffington Post have to say? (Remember, HuffPo is pro-liberal):

Forget Massachusetts, Vermont, Minnesota, and California. Hawaii is the most liberal state in the U.S. This falls under the category of “what Hawaii can teach the world.”

Actually, Hawaii is teaching people what NOT to do.

Currently, Governor Abercrombie called for a special session of the Legislature just to approve gay marriage. The left here is still scarred that it was not the first state to legalize it, and now they seek to make amends, and play catch-up ball.

This article was published 2013.

Hawaii is throwing down the proverbial liberal gauntlet. We humbly invite the rest of the country to turn off the Fox News Network — just briefly, and to look West and see that the most liberal of liberal states has, in fact, not imploded transforming into a cosmic black hole vortex threatening to transport the rest of the U.S. though time and space into some sort of liberal dark age that lasts for millenniums.

Actually, the state is heading toward utter bankruptcy, as the state is currently heaving under $10 billion in debt.

Elizabeth Warren’s cool, Bernie Sanders is awesome, and Franken and Klobuchar make quite the liberal dynamic duo. California is, well, California. Berkeley is more of a people’s republic, and is more like a liberal version of the Vatican, so they don’t count. Apples and oranges.

However, the number of elected Republicans here in our Legislature is only 8. Only one is in the state Senate. They call him, “The Lone Ranger.” The Republicans here aren’t your normal mainland Republicans either. Among them have been grassroots environmentalists, pro-gay rights, pro-animal, and good government politicians.

That state senator just got fired, as you know,

"Good government" politicians--sounds like "Freddie Kreuger Day Care." Would you want kid staying there during the day?"

Heck, the Green Party had two candidates running for seats in the Legislature against seriously strong candidates, and they each garnered 30 percent of the vote in their respective elections. Lest we forget, the Dennis Kucinich presidential campaign got the most convention delegates from the great state of Hawaii in 2004.

Dennis who? (point taken)

Our Governor, Neil Abercrombie, is an aging hippy. For the record, that’s a compliment here. Our state Supreme Court Chief Justice is a former wildlife attorney and he was a Republican appointed by a Republican. Tellingly, all but one Justice is more liberal than he is.

EEK!

"Aging hippie" is pretty creepy (HuffPo needs to spell the word right, too, but whats's spell-check to a liberal, anyway?)

That, and our Congressional delegation is way liberal, and they have the high scores from liberal special interest groups, and donations from liberal PACs, to prove it.

Liberal special interests make all the difference, or the destruction, of Hawaii.

Last but not least, Hawaii did give the country its current president and liberal version of the conservatives’ Ronald Reagan — #44 himself, Barack Obama.

It is clear blasphemy to compare Barack Obama to Ronald Reagan. The Hawaiian people, and all Democrats, should consider comparing Obama to Jimmy Carter.

Except that would be an insult to Carter.

Why is Hawaii a liberal bastion? Simple.

Here comes the breakdown:

1) Politically savvy and well-organized left groups and unions... along with no organized right. Although the New Hope Church is still working on marching religious conservatives to the polls, outpacing all the fast food places combined in franchising efforts. However, AFSCME, UPW, Teamsters, hotel workers, longshoremen, carpenters, teachers, and university professionals all show up and put up for the Hawaii Dems. GLBTQ, animal, environment, health, and other left-leaning lobbies are also potent, especially in these fertile grounds.

Relatively small numbers form powerful groups, and they have taken over.

Conservative groups have not organized? Is there any hope that they can do better? Churches are the pride of the pro-life, pro-family movement. If their numbers are expanding faster than the fast-food restaurants, then a conservative counter-revolution may be in the works.

At this time, I am not holding my breath.

2) This place is so diverse racially and culturally it’s as if the UN was a whole state instead of a building in NY, except everyone in Hawaii gets along a lot better than the UN delegates do.

The party that turned “Self Deportation” from a liberal comedy skit into a policy platform and presidential primary litmus test has limited brand favorability ratings here. So much so that Republicans often hide their party affiliation to get elected. That last “Republican Wave” that swept the country never made it to Hawai`i’s shores.

It also crashed along the Rocky Mountains and never made an impact in California. A very troubling sign for the country, for California in particular.

Ergo, in Hawaii liberals can be out and proud. So you liberals on the mainland need to look yourselves in the mirror and repeat after Senator Al Franken, “I am good enough. I am smart enough. And gosh darn it, people like me.” Go ahead, you know you want to say it, “I am L.. L... LIBERAL!” There, now doesn’t that feel much better! Aloha!

A-hell-no!

Final Reflection

It seems to be that the abject poverty of so many is hard to escape.

If you live on an island, without the opportunity to get away to a better state, the only thing left is to resign oneself to the sad, destructive culture of barren, secular liberalism.

Government dependence reigns at an all-time high. Why work when someone else is footing the bills, right?

This "aloha" embrace of liberty makes no sense.

How can one claim to be free while dependent on someone else?

Another question--how extensive was federal aid in the state before its statehood?

To what extent has the influx of

How many people on the Hawaiian islands feel like Americans?

I spoke with one Hawaiian Republicans, and he told me that many native Hawaiians do not see themselves as Americans. That is too bad, and that needs to change.

A sense of pride in this country, and one's status as Americans, is crucial for wise (limited) governance. Every citizen should learn to love his country, yet hate his government.

Hawaii: The Bluest of Blue States

Now that the Republicans have no voice in the state senate, how far left will the state legislature go? Is there any limit to the tolerance of ordinary citizens to the encroachment of the state into their daily lives?