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Without trying to, I've found myself on a lot of right-wing mailing lists. This one, warning that Democrats are trying to turn America into [scary music] California had me doing a bit of research. 1/ 
How much of a hellhole has CA become since early this decade, when Dems achieved a supermajority and became able to make real policy changes? Well, for one thing, it has had a horrifying decline in the number of uninsured 2/
That's for non elderly adults -- the people targeted by Obamacare, which CA has enthusiastically adopted. But anyway, CA also has scarily high life expectancy, up there with northern Europe (TX is 2 years less, NC, where the GOP took power, 3 yrs less) 3/ nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/1…
Job creation has been awful ... ly high 4/
OK, CA is hardly paradise. Aside from sharing many of America's social ills, it has seriously dysfunctional housing policy: NIMBYism has priced ordinary families out of housing in just about everywhere that offers opportunity 5/
But expecting people to believe that CA in 2019 is a uniquely terrible place is an amazing case of "what are you going to believe — me or your own eyes?" Next thing they'll be saying that Trump is the only source of everything good. Oh, wait 6/
PS: Lou Dobbs is the only full-on Trumper media figure I used to know when he was sane. I would go on his show in the early 2000s, and he seemed like a personally nice, sorta reasonable conservative. A mind is a terrible thing to lose 7/
PPS: One reason California-hate may be a big thing right now 8/ nytimes.com/2019/09/14/us/…
