Take a look at the substance of what CHS is saying:
"Young residents of the state have never experienced the velocity and depth of California's famous busts. The last real spot of bother in California's economy occurred almost 30 years ago in the early 1990s. Since then, it's been one boom after another."
Scuse me, who was in power in California in the 1990's?
I know who because I was living here back then, at least until 1998 anyway.
The Republicans had it all tied up. California had been in their back pocket for a very long time.
And even the Northridge Quake and the massive insurance fraud committed openly with the tacit nudge-wink approval of California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush did not disabuse Californians of their destructive political choices.
I personally lost $350 thousand dollar worth of video editing and duplicating gear in that quake.
And I was INSURED. But guess what? This was before all those nifty "small home office" definitions from the IRS, and commercial grade pro gear used to have stickers on the back that said
"FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY".
Reason? Because insurers in California used that as an excuse to NOT COVER anything of pro quality...commercial gear if it was housed/stored in a residential area.
And I later learned that this was not adequately codified in all the fine print but by that point I'd been beaten so badly there was no way I could afford the high litigation costs alone. In any case, I never pursued finding an attorney beyond a few feelers, there was just too much mess to deal with, on several levels.
It took the sum total collective and combined memory of that and other scandals, PLUS the eventual Republican interstate acts of war from Texas, which caused the California Electricity Crisis of 2000 (Enron) and then the gradual selloffs of state owned properties en masse, closures of police stations, schools, streetlights, and many other public city services, even the layoff of an ENTIRE town police force in urban Southern California...finally, the dam broke.
California Republicans wanted the entire state to resemble Lodi or Turlock, which means they wanted it to resemble Sam Brownback's version of Kansas. That's what they've always wanted.
The idea finally soured an overwhelming majority on Republicans. It took decades, but they finally screwed the pooch one too many times.
And you know what? I understand that there are sane and decent conservatives here in California.
Unfortunately for them, they too are being branded as crypto-leftists by their Trumpian peers.
