I have for years now been saying almost the very same thing. “As goes California, so goes the nation”; we’ve all heard that one. Right? Well, I’ve determined that California doesn’t have so much of a “North/South” problem, as it does an “East/West” problem. Just look at a map of the election results time after time on a county by county basis to see what I mean. The “Tail” of Two Cities (or Metro Areas) is that San Francisco and Los Angles decide our fate, which direction we go, et cetera. As it is in almost any other state I can think of. (I, by the way, believe I-5 should be the dividing line. To the east? California. To the west? Mexifornia. and, I do not mean that in a racist way, hell, I work for the Cervantes family business. (O.k., o.k., if that name bothers you, how about one we already know and associate with the current state of California. “La-La Land”?) Rather I’m referring to the manner in which our majority Democrat politicians in California are pandering to La Raza (which means “The Race” (and it ain’t Anglos, my friends) and all that that entails, just for one example. Or, to promise the sky to the now institutionally down-trodden (as long as they continue to vote for them, of course) paid for by other peoples money. Many of the posts here typify what is sadly missing in our country today. An understanding of the very principles our founders laid down for us, and, more importantly, their reasons why. How many of these so-called “Enlightened Ones” know, understand, or, most egregiously, even care why we have an “Electoral College”? They only think (and I use that term loosely) that a “Tyranny of the Majority” happens if the Republicans are in charge. (Watch them come screeching out of the woodwork on that one) They won’t even see the similarities between their actions to stifle dissent and impose their oh so enlightened mandates “For the ‘good of the people’ ” as compared to what they rail against from “the ‘other’ side”. You cannot say anything that would offend anyone. Unless, of course, that offense is committed against a “Non-Protected Class”. Then you may offend and call names to your little black hearted, progressive content. You must be either “Pro-choice”, or “Pro-Life”. No in-between allowed. Well, I choose to think for myself. I am “Pro-Informed Decision”. Yes at the moment of conception, it is a life, a human life, for how could it be otherwise? However, you do have the right to destroy that life if, and I mean only if, you realize and understand that that is what you are doing (or promoting). That “Viable” or not; amorphous “Mass” or not, it is life, a human life and should be treated as such. Don’t give me that crap about the poor, scared teen aged girl and her tender sensibilities, unable to cope. For far too many years now, the enlightened ones have promoted showing these very same poor, tender “incapables” tobacco ravaged lungs, or taking them to an emergency room to see first hand the results of drinking and driving, for me to place any credence in their false cries of despair. Yes America, there is a divide, and it is not the Tea Party movement that is dividing us.