Like, I fucking wish they were. As a California (and especially a Bay Area) resident, we wouldn’t have to deal with the bullshitery of living under sky-high costs as tech billionaires and landleeches have the privilege to simply walk all over us. Like, California is as much a part of the Capitalist American country as Mississippi… in fact maybe even more so with the presence of Silicon Valley and all the companies stationed over there. Along with this, a communist California would not allow themselves to become such a car-centric hellhole that it is. Yet, no matter how much the Californian government will suck up to lobbyists and billionaires, they will still be called communists for doing the absolute bare minimum for women’s and LGBT+ rights and for having restrictive gun laws (which was actually implemented by none other than their messiah, Ronald Reagan out of the fear of the Black Panthers).
Like, I want to live inside their fantasy of a communist California. It would do away with so much of the bullshitery that I have to deal with living here.
Spot on. I’ve lived in a lot of US states, and none of them was as unequal and awful as the bay area. Absolute neoliberal hellscape with extreme wealth right next to extreme poverty and crushing rents.
You drive through some areas, and it feels like a snow crash corporate fiefdom, google owns this borough, facebook that one, pharma companies this one.
They are working with the “everything I don’t like is Communism” definition of communist.
It is very rare that any US liberal has a real understanding of what communism actually is. The enduring legacy of the red scare has ensured that they know it is “bad”, and that is all they need to know. Accusing a USian of being a communist is the fastest way to guarantee they sprint right as fast as they possibly can; better for them to be labelled a fascist than a communist.
Believe me, I too wish there was anywhere in the US that was any real flavour of socialist.
They don’t know what communism is and they don’t care to know. They’ll powerfully reject even reading the shortest of books to get educated.
Uncritical support for the People’s Republic of California 💪
Glory to our leader Vladimir Smith
I’m moving to California soon from Europe. Would be so lovely to live in that fantasy, I agree. Stay strong comrade.
I have a pretty unpopular trake on this state among MLs anyways lol. I think it’s really important with California to remember that most of the problems in CA are pretty much problems in all of the US. Horrific anti homeless policies, selling out to business and developers, racist cops, unaffordable housing, are problems in most of the US.
Also note I live in a lower middle income neighbourhood of proletarian people of colour, mostly Hispanic and Black factory workers, landscapers, and construction workers. I don’t live in the rich bay area.
At the same time there are material benefits to living here and a lot of the conservative out of state talking points are to obscure that.
- Is demographics. I can’t stand too many white people concentrated together. I can’t eat at Applebee’s every day.
- Is working conditions. Most the US doesn’t have overtime after 8 hrs, lunches, or anti discrimination laws. Wages are way higher.
- The state medical insurance is actually really good it’s just means tested really low, so it’s unavailable to most people.
- Quality of life, public spaces, things like hiking and stuff are accessible.
That all makes it like materially better than a lot of the US, tho with the problems it has, it still ISN’T GOOD, and it’s not likely to get better either. That being said I’ve lived in a lot of states and have friends all over the US and I do think it’s important to remember you’ll have all the same problems in Texas with none of the good things, and I do value my community with eloteros and fruit carts more than like, racist pickup truck neighbours.
