Why the Hate for California? - Reasons to despise the West Coast

[Kyria the Great]

It's actually kind of amazing how much the rest of NY hates Manhattan, for a fucking arsenal of reasons.

It is almost as if we shouldn't have Mega-cities where power in the state is concentrated in one small corner.

 

[Shokew]

It is almost as if we shouldn't have Mega-cities where power in the state is concentrated in one small corner.

It's like Judge Dredd was trying to warn us of something, even if it was just a crazy-as-fuck, action-packed comic in a post apocalyptic future where the law needed a serious upgrade to help society not collapse further. Too bad this is California we're talking about - we're damn near there, in that regard.

 

[Azazel]

Yea I wouldn't say I hate California. There's nothing nothing inherently wrong with it. What I hate are politicians with power over an unbelievable amount of people. They'll just say anything they think their voting base wants to hear. I mean sure there's a lot of SJW types in California but I want to believe they are the extremely vocal minority and most Californians just want shit to be normal. The problem is the politicians listen to that vocal minority, especially celebrities, and think that what they want is good for the entire state, which it very clearly isn't. Couple that with extreme corruption and overall mismanagement of the state's resources.

A lot of people assume that the Hollywood attitude of smug superiority is the norm in California which I don't really believe. There are probably a lot of Californians that look down on fly over states, but I'd like to believe it's not most Californians. On average they're fine, it's just the snobs that really give California a bad reputation. Average Californians just want to live in a state with awesome weather and great job opportunities, and just try to keep their head down when it comes to the insane liberal politics that go on there.

Anyway I think California should just be split up (I've heard proposals for as many as 6 different states), so that politicians pandering to an extreme left don't have so much control over less deranged segments of the population, and smug liberal elites can be quarantined into their own playpens away from everyone else.

 

[JustStopDude]

In land empire, I think this is what locals call it, I must go there for work from time to time. Shit head dessert filled with crazy imbred rednecks all doing meth.

 

[UptownRuckus]

I read the title and asked myself

"is this even a question?"

Lol in all seriousness its the bullshit laws.

 

[Maxliam]

I read the title and asked myself

"is this even a question?"

Lol in all seriousness its the bullshit laws.

And Diane Frankenstein, Harvey Milk, Nancy Pelosi, Hollywood in general, and San Francisco. If there is one town I seriously pray had a nuclear bomb dropped on it, it's San Fran. I've never hated a town so much before.

It literally takes the worst features of the other five towns I'm okay with being nuked off the planet and amplifies it.

If my hatred were a video game, it'd be the final boss.

 

[c-no]

I'll just say this as someone that has seen California, at least seeing the SoCal part, one city has had an epidemic with hepatitis a and on top of it, it also has a homeless problem. Take a simple trolley ride and you'll see some tents and litter spread around some areas.

 

[ES 148]

I think it pays to remember that a lot of hate here tends to be played up for the funnies, and anyone who really gets worked up over this sort of thing is probably a bit of a slow-in-the-mind.

 

[Slap47]

It's ruling liberal middle-class is embodiment of sjwism/neoliberalism.

They forcibly bus out homeless people instead of dealing with their own people and go batshit crazy on all social issues aside from those actually help poor people. They preach about the environment but have very poor public transit and dump raw sewage in the ocean. They preach about diversity but basically have segregation through economics and claim to be smarter than those "rednecks" while leading the charge on the same stupid trends that they criticize poor southern whites for. They'll be the first to talk about how awful it is to have a celebrity president but almost certainly talk fondly of that corrupt Idiot Arnold.

Neoliberalism

YES: Diversity, trendiness, attracting big Companies, ceremonial arrests, drugs, post-modernist art

NO: Anti-poverty measures, social welfare, order, maintaining decency in public, an actual local culture shared by everybody

It's not like the classes or demographics have changed all that much. It's still the same trendy rich white liberals self-medicating their lack of motivation and lust for meaning by taking on some struggle that won't actually negatively affect them personally.

Rich white men denying poor white men jobs and opportunities to feel better about their own undeserved success. Dumb asses in higher education of all colors making up for their lack of pride by doing something that allows them to do something with their fists or loud mouths rather than their mind.

I think these select quotes summarize it best.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

It is almost as if we shouldn't have Mega-cities where power in the state is concentrated in one small corner.

California (and Michigan and Illinois) are excellent examples of why small-r republicanism is an excellent idea that is seldom appreciated for its genius.

 

[soy_king]

Among everything else listed, California spreads the contagion of idiotic American liberalism by having ridiculously high taxes, causing massive flight of middle class Democrat voters to lower tax conservative states, which then turns them into Democrat states that start applying shitty Liberal policies. For one thing, Google leaving Silicon Valley and moving to my state of Colorado is going to make Colorado an even more expensive place than it already is.

 

[Kyria the Great]

Among everything else listed, California spreads the contagion of idiotic American liberalism by having ridiculously high taxes, causing massive flight of middle class Democrat voters to lower tax conservative states, which then turns them into Democrat states that start applying shitty Liberal policies. For one thing, Google leaving Silicon Valley and moving to my state of Colorado is going to make Colorado an even more expensive place than it already is.

It is a fucking Blue Plague that won't go away until it has infected all of the United States, or until we can find a way to bankrupt enough of these upper-class liberals.

 

[Slap47]

It is a fucking Blue Plague that won't go away until it has infected all of the United States, or until we can find a way to bankrupt enough of these upper-class liberals.

They leave before their policies destroy them so it's impossible to beat them.

When the USA is destroyed theyllt flee to another country.

 

[Kyria the Great]

They leave before their policies destroy them so it's impossible to beat them.

When the USA is destroyed theyllt flee to another country.

Well perhaps we can help them move with free helicopter rides?

 

[Pablo Birmingham]

The reason I can't hate California is you know one day Da Big One will hit and California will an hero itself into the Pacific.

I, zen like, await the great cleansing.

 

[Caesare]

I hear in California you can get an app on your phone and they'll deliver marijuana to you, wherever you are. That's neat.

 

[soy_king]

It is a fucking Blue Plague that won't go away until it has infected all of the United States, or until we can find a way to bankrupt enough of these upper-class liberals.

The only thing I can see happening is after years of mismanagement in their political strongholds the working class tires of their bullshit and votes in Republicans, presumably when they have left these states. The recent transition of Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin comes to mind.

 

[Kyria the Great]

The only thing I can see happening is after years of mismanagement in their political strongholds the working class tires of their bullshit and votes in Republicans, presumably when they have left these states. The recent transition of Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin comes to mind.

Living in one of the mentioned states is totally true. Even if my viewpoints are more right leaning, I hope that we can achieve a healthy red-blue dynamic that can keep the excesses of the parties in check.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

People hate us because the state plays host to insane moonbat politicians, self-aggrandizing celebrities, and smug foreign billionaires who kill businesses and irrigate their lawns with more fresh water than most countries possess. They also read about all our crazy laws passed by a governor who came from the same planet as Tommy Wiseau.

Personally I'm ambivalent. California has great weather and I like knowing I can visit the beach whenever I feel like. But I don't like having to shell out $950k for a 2 bed home.

 

[TheMaxHeadroomIncident]

People hate us because the state plays host to insane moonbat politicians, self-aggrandizing celebrities, and smug foreign billionaires who kill businesses and irrigate their lawns with more fresh water than most countries possess. They also read about all our crazy laws passed by a governor who came from the same planet as Tommy Wiseau.

Personally I'm ambivalent. California has great weather and I like knowing I can visit the beach whenever I feel like. But I don't like having to shell out $950k for a 2 bed home.

As a fellow Californian myself, you took the words right out of my mouth. The way I see it, people seem to hate California because it represents, for lack of a better term, some sort of "false and decadent" culture to them.

But that's just my two cents. I generally tend to stay out of other peoples' business and opinions, for the most part.