Heh, all of the US is already becoming California. Or rather, California and Washington state has become the axis around which the rest of the world revolves.
The Republican Party, more than anything, is being driven by California politics. Not just literally, by Minority Leader McCarthy (R-Bakersfield), but the whole culture war thing, the victimhood, the obsessions with immigration and austerity. The way they are now making a national platform based around issues that do not and cannot appeal to a majority -- all of these things are how the GOP moved itself into obscurity after Prop 187 in California. The national Republican Party is adopting the same strategies that already failed, and made themselves essentially unelectable in California. And of course they are, because even conservative media is driven out of the west coast. And they have exported their anxieties to the entire nation.
The Democratic Party is also moving towards California's lead, with strong youth support and VP Harris getting her SF allies into Cabinet positions. And also taking advantage of how, with Trump, the GOP has forfeited the minority vote for a generation (just like Prop 187). We're already starting to see the shift that happened in California happen nationally, where large corporations have thrown in with Democrats. They still want conservative tax policy, of course, but there's no point in losing customers to fight a losing culture war. Might as well side with the people who actually have power, so you can gain influence.
But it goes further. The largest companies in the world are headquartered in California and Washington -- Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google. Tesla and SpaceX are also out here. Of course, Elon is moving factories to Texas because it's lower taxes, for now. That just means the Californification plan is succeeding. I mean fuck, Texas is even having a major energy crisis a couple decades after California. Keep going down that same path, guys!
So it's not just the US. Between Hollywood as the greatest exporter of culture worldwide, to the great technological powerhouses near Seattle and San Francisco, the groundwork is already laid for us to conquer the world with economics and culture. It all feels a bit like the Dutch Golden Age. We even have our own tulip investments, NFTs and BTC. It's going to be fun times!
The Republican Party, more than anything, is being driven by California politics. Not just literally, by Minority Leader McCarthy (R-Bakersfield), but the whole culture war thing, the victimhood, the obsessions with immigration and austerity. The way they are now making a national platform based around issues that do not and cannot appeal to a majority -- all of these things are how the GOP moved itself into obscurity after Prop 187 in California. The national Republican Party is adopting the same strategies that already failed, and made themselves essentially unelectable in California. And of course they are, because even conservative media is driven out of the west coast. And they have exported their anxieties to the entire nation.
The Democratic Party is also moving towards California's lead, with strong youth support and VP Harris getting her SF allies into Cabinet positions. And also taking advantage of how, with Trump, the GOP has forfeited the minority vote for a generation (just like Prop 187). We're already starting to see the shift that happened in California happen nationally, where large corporations have thrown in with Democrats. They still want conservative tax policy, of course, but there's no point in losing customers to fight a losing culture war. Might as well side with the people who actually have power, so you can gain influence.
But it goes further. The largest companies in the world are headquartered in California and Washington -- Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google. Tesla and SpaceX are also out here. Of course, Elon is moving factories to Texas because it's lower taxes, for now. That just means the Californification plan is succeeding. I mean fuck, Texas is even having a major energy crisis a couple decades after California. Keep going down that same path, guys!
So it's not just the US. Between Hollywood as the greatest exporter of culture worldwide, to the great technological powerhouses near Seattle and San Francisco, the groundwork is already laid for us to conquer the world with economics and culture. It all feels a bit like the Dutch Golden Age. We even have our own tulip investments, NFTs and BTC. It's going to be fun times!
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