I happen to live in CA, here's my take.
When leadership says they're fixing the problem but in my town we went from 1 homeless dude to dozens in a few years, the streets keep getting worse, fires keep getting worse, everything is skyrocketing in price, wages stay the same, drug dealers act with impunity, criminals act with impunity, citizens who stand up for themself get punished worse than criminals, governments keep getting fatter and less efficient, *f-worded up policies bring the same *f-worded up results and the idiots say they just need more time to bring good results and all you hear is "raise taxes and throw more money at it" you get FED THE *f-word UP!!!!!!!!!!!
Migrants everywhere, we're told we need to conform to them and learn their language instead of vice versa, I pay taxes they don't, they get gov't benefits and I don't (not that I want their handouts), people who don't register and insure cars are free and clear while the people they hit are on the hook. Schools that don't teach anyone jack *s-word, teachers who can't read or write on a 6th grade level sucking up my tax dollars "teaching" high school. Pompous jackasses saying we don't know enough to act for ourselves, criminal gangs running rampant, "more money will fix it". Damn near 1/3 of my paycheck gets sucked up and I see nothing in the way of improvements.
Give people drugs, give them safe means to do drugs, but don't actually try and stop them from doing drugs. Put policies in place so buying guns and ammo is a huge hassle, penalize citizens who use them, but let criminals who illegally acquire that stuff go free. I'll stop here 'cause I could go on for days, but that's my take. Hell, I'm 1hr from Sac out in the brush where nobody goes and this is still stuff I gotta deal with in a town of 10-11 thousand people.
