I had shared this meme about a year ago and at the beginning of the 'Primary' circus which inferred that what is seen as Presidential Election by American is seen as America's IQ test by the rest of the world.
The meme held true and last night we have learned that America's IQ test which has been competing with the room temperature is even lower than the room temperature ;)
Bernie Sanders who has been campaigning in California for about 2 weeks and had over 250 rallies up and down the State was expected to win in 'landslide' :P but that didn't happen at all.
Was Sanders loss a shocking surprise? It depends who you'd ask that question. I imagine for his supporters who lacked ability to do the math it was rather shocking, after all it was believed by them that California is a progressive state, with rather informed electorates whose demography was believed to contribute to Sander's victory.
The young & educated were expected to flock to the polls and transfer their bravado, their enthusiasm, and their energy & excitement at the polls, but that didn't happen.
Was it a shocker to me? No, it wasn't, or I should say his loss was not a shock, the spread by which he lost was sort of surprising.
The reason for my not being surprised has a lot to do with my understanding of the State of California which I have been residing in for over 3 decades, understanding and acknowledging California's pseudo faux progressive image that is often presented to the nation.
Being a Californian not only gives one a bragging rights but it also gives one criticizing rights, so perhaps if I share my views of this 'sunny' but not so 'bright' state with you, you too would agree that Uncle Bernie and his people made a wrong 'strategic decision' to put all his eggs in California's basket. One more wrong 'strategic decision' on top of the myriads of wrong 'strategic decisions' that is :)
California my friends might be a "Blue State" but its political characters and those at helm, if are not Zionist shills and war mongers they are incompetent.
Take its two Senators for example; Dianne Feinstein, the senile old hack who is as old as San Francisco and whose loyalty lies with Tel Aviv first and foremost.
Or California's Jr. Senator Barbara Boxer, another Zionist shill whose lips were magically stuck to Mrs. Clinton's behind from the get go but thankfully we don't have to endure seeing her any longer as she is retiring.
Or one of California's Congressional Representatives, a man from my district, a creature called Brad Sherman who holds his Town Halls in various Temples around San Fernando Valley and his guest speakers are often just happen to have arrived from Israel !
California is the state which has given us Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the House, a dimwit, incompetent, impotent, waxed mannequin who once was a third in line of presidency, never mind that her incoherent speech patterns indicated mental impairment and incompetence.
California is the state whose K-12 quality of education is ranked 47 out of 50 in the nation and whose rate of high school graduates in its LA Unified School District (2nd largest in the nation) is hovering around 58%. The future 'informed voters' :P whose state does not have enough room in its community colleges and universities to educate them but has plenty of room to incarcerate them ;)
California is the state that pretends to be the icon of 'health consciousness', where it is incumbent upon its [worthwhile] residents to drink their Green power booster glass of slush every morning and workout a good sweat, burning out that half an organic carrot and a sauteed Zucchini and grilled beets they consumed for lunch.
Alas when it came to voting on a measure that one would think it should have been of some importance to them, such as a mere 'labeling' of the GMO products, their Organically fed minds failed to see through the scare tactic used by GMO lobbyists that 'of poison' means increased in price of that poison :) a tactic that worked which resulted in subsequent failure of the proposition.
California is the state whose farmlands are turning to dust-bowls, it only takes a few hours of drive through its central valley to see the devastation that water rationing has brought upon a state whose bloodline is agribusiness. Alas while the water to crops are rationed and while the Californians are penalized for watering their lawns more than twice a week, its so called 'informed/progressive' electorates are oblivious to their State's fraking industry which uses about 140 million gallons of water as part of fraking process in one year.
California is the state whose Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky whose obnoxious ruling to sentence a former Stanford University swim team member convicted of sexual assault to just six months in county jail caused an outrage, WAS VOTED INTO A NEW 6 YEAR TERM LAST NIGHT by the so called 'informed' California Voters!
So stating that 'informed voters' in California are as endangered of a species as voters of any other State in this nation is not an exaggeration. Progressiveness, being a revolutionary, a reformist, or being considered broad-minded? I don't know, California is certainly NOT what it used to be.
Susan Nevens - 8 June 2016
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