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Historian Adam Smith discovers how the Golden State has long been shaped by conflicting visions of paradise - and what this can tell us about America.
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BBC Radio 4 - California Paradise Lost
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SF is a dirty, nasty, yet sometimes beautiful place.Was born, raised, an ejookated (hehe) in California. SF bay area the whole time. It was far from paradise, but paradise was a short BART and bus ride away.
SF is a dirty, nasty, yet sometimes beautiful place.Was born, raised, an ejookated (hehe) in California. SF bay area the whole time. It was far from paradise, but paradise was a short BART and bus ride away.
Coldest winter I ever spent in California was Spring next to the bay.
Give it to the Mexicans...but they are on their own, no freebies
California is on course to become a banana republic with a growing majority population that is impoverished and uneducated and a minority 1% with all the wealth who control the state affairs. The middle class is being squeezed out of that state at a rapid pace. That's one of the factors driving population growth in other western states.
The progressives love this because that's what their true agenda is. They are shills for the rich and powerful while preaching social justice to the idiots who lap it up.
I lived there throughout the 90's. What their government has done to the state makes me ill
Now they call it, COMMIEfornia which is fitting
California is on course to become a banana republic with a growing majority population that is impoverished and uneducated and a minority 1% with all the wealth who control the state affairs. The middle class is being squeezed out of that state at a rapid pace. That's one of the factors driving population growth in other western states.
The progressives love this because that's what their true agenda is. They are shills for the rich and powerful while preaching social justice to the idiots who lap it up.
I've visited every part of California south of the Sonoma valley - never got north of Fort Ross and don't know why,
It used to be one of the most beautiful places in the world.