But there's no place else to go. Simply hauling myself to some other state just puts off the inevitable. California used to be about new beginnings and freedom too, not the next thing to a People's Republic.

The country I'm living in right now is the best of the bunch. The problem is a pack of Marxist wannabes trying to convert it into one of those so-called "enlightened" countries that has been sucking off America's innovation and strength for well over two generations, like a "progressive" activist who's living over his parents' garage.

If the wannabes succeed, there'll be no shining example anymore to show people suffering under collectivism that there's another way to do things. The Berlin Wall fell because it had two sides, and the difference was obvious.

Have you noticed how many noisy socialists don't actually live in socialist countries?