It's pretty clear from my "location" that I live in California right now.
And you're absolutely sure that every square inch of California is just like you folk in San Francisco, right?
How do you think "I think"? And where are you getting these fictional numbers from?
There are more devoutly religious people in California than there are people at all in most states in this country.
Maybe.
Where do you think "most people" live?
And what do you think the "socialist democratic party" is "really" about?
Unbridled power. People like you want to be relieved of the burden of responsibility. you want to return to the nest and have mommy and daddy government care for you, deciding what you should and shouldn't do. In return, you accept authoritarian rule.
The democratic party seeks the crippling of the constitution, though still mouthing hollow adherence, and the establishment of a more authoritarian police state.
30 years ago, California was a great place, now it is a police state. This is the gift that you of the left have bestowed. We are run 100% for the benefit of the bureaucrats, the state and other government workers.
This is the vision you have for the entire nation, a police state where government workers displace the middle class, and those who are not party member, and put in government jobs, are peasants.
California was the 6th largest economy in the world in 1990, now we are the 9th, and we continue to drop as the ruling socialists actively work to drive all private enterprise from the state.
There are plenty of "signs of progress" - the stock market being a pretty big one.
Ain't fascism grand? Damn, all we have to do is used "borrowed" federal funds to pump into the stock market and soon the 1% reaps incredible reward.
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Again, "no progress" is easily disprovable.
As we become more like Cuba, you call it "progress," others may not.