The only way my family left California was through an unexpected opportunity provided by God -- otherwise known as GRACE. We had been trying to escape by way of finding employment in another state, which after two years of searching and applying and numerous interviews still did not produce fruit. However, continuous prayer did, though it was not for the reason we had imagined nor even the state we had focused. We left on faith, and we are grateful for God's answered prayer.
Now, why would anyone want to leave California? Have you not heard how "beautiful" California is or how perfect the weather is? Yes, I can attest to how perfect the weather is, usually. To be fair, we lived in the Southern California DESERT where it is hot, dry, and windy. The seasons are winter, wind, summer, and fire. It rarely rains. And the earth is hard, scorched, and covered with dust.
But lately I had been finding it difficult to see the beauty in California anymore. There are pockets of beauty, like the mountains and the sunsets and San Diego. Yet a state as large as California can not rely on its mountains, sunsets, and San Diego and continue to survive. The truth is, California has forfeit her beauty. It is losing viability. She has become a dry, thirsty, barren land. It is mainly dried brush. Even in the mountains, it can only showcase dead brush, dried pine needles, and dusty trails.
California, a state that proudly leads the world in environmental salvation, has become a land of ruination, destruction, and demise. I believe the policies of the state are to blame, with help from the loyal electorate, legal and illegal. It is a losing argument; the people do not care. And the one's who do are leaving.
In our travels across the country over the years, from west to east and back again, we saw a similar theme: California, compared to the states along the I-10 and the I-40 specifically, is a dirty, neglected state. My husband said the reason other states appear beautiful and cared for is because those states use their tax dollars for infrastructure. They pave and improve roads, maintain landscaping, rest stops, and signage, and clean up trash and graffiti. Their roadways are an important investment.
In California, special interest groups and progressive ideas are the investment. Infrastructure can wait.
Granted, California cannot help that it is a desert, or that it is deserted and uninhabited for miles from its neighboring state lines, or that most of that land is federally protected for a vanishing rodent. But that is no reason for its rest stops to be useless. Rest stops were erected for a reason. The least they can be is available. Other states not only keep theirs open, but they are maintained, and one does not need to hold one's nose with one hand while swatting away flies with the other.
But, this is the least of California's problems. We also noticed that the roads in other states are preserved and well kept, even easy on the eyes with appropriate landscaping. Surely, we experienced road construction through Arizona and Texas, but that is to be expected. Once you hit central Texas, the roadway is lined with trees all the way to Florida. Trees, trees, and more trees. I don't know if I am complaining or exclaiming. That is just how it is. However, when heading west from El Paso on, the landscape turns to dust color. And by the time you get to the California border, the color is disappointment. It is akin to a mind draining - a kind of emptiness.
Maybe that is because I was not seeing the land with my eyes, but the soul of California with my heart, which I know is dying, if not dead already. I could not take it anymore. It literally sucked the life out of me, and I could not stand the thought of leaving my children there to live as adults. Yet, I understood that if God wanted us to stay in that state, He would have willed it, and we would have stayed, and our children, too. Maybe. And He would have provided and protected us there as well. He will protect and provide for His believers regardless of what happens to California. But unbelievers will not have His protection, and they will suffer just as California dries up.
Before I moved to Florida, I sent a list of grievances to Governor Gavin Newsom (similar to what the Founders did for King George III when they composed the Declaration of Independence) explaining why we were leaving.
Some of the issues the State has failed to address include the water problem. It doesn't rain enough in California. It has to buy water from other states. But the governor has another agenda and rather starve the state's farmer's like a good obedient WEF Global Leader, while sending water back to the ocean and enforce restrictions on and punish water usage for the rest of the people.
The State has failed to fix its energy problem. There are no new ideas. Wind and solar power aren't cutting it. All it can do is to restrict and discourage usage. Yet it wants to outlaw gas powered anything and force everyone into electric power. How long before you can't even drive your EV?
The State has a wild fire problem. Every year. The land is rocky, dry, and windy -- a hot bed for disaster. But it refuses to listen to wisdom about deforesting dead trees, brush, and pine needles. The State is beholden to the environmentalists first and foremost. But why waste money on such ideas?
The State is neck deep in an expanding problem of mental illness. (Homelessness is just a cover for neglected addicts and the mentally ill.) In some cities, the taxpayers provide drug paraphernalia to the vagrants because: safety first. A lot of tax dollars are spent on maintaining the homeless population. All of this is done at the expense of business and residents who have to endure rising crime, arson, violence, and sidewalk excrement.
Speaking of rising crime, voters agree that criminals should be treated with lighter sentences, less jail time, if at all, and more coddling instead. Looting cannot be treated as theft anymore. Felonies have been magically and conveniently switched to misdemeanors. It may not address the underlying problem of crime, but at least it has improved incarceration stats. And that looks good!
Legalizing marijuana was foolish. It's everywhere. Of course people drive while under the influence, go shopping while intoxicated, and sit in their cars and smoke at the park; the odor pollutes the air everywhere. This after the State worked so hard to completely ostracize tobacco smokers! But it is what the electorate wanted.
California is a sanctuary state. That means it protects people who come to America illegally, especially those who commit crimes, by not turning them over to mean federal authorities.
California is also an unfriendly state for landlords. Or California supports squatters over landlords. Or California believes that living rent free in someone else's property is a right. I don't know how else to say this one.
You get the point.
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Then there are some very grievous moral issues in California. One is the application of sexual exploitation and confusion that has spread rampantly through public education and government agencies. This iniquitous ideology is the standard for everything - the common denominator. Nothing may exist unless it meets this standard. The governor, too, is very proud of this because it is brave to advance progressive ideas like humanism.
But perhaps the most dangerous ideology is Newsom's stance on abortion as a liberating and celebratory act of womanhood. He once proclaimed that women (even though he is not a biologist) who want an abortion are welcome to come to California anytime. Now with the recent SCOTUS draft leak regarding the possible end of Roe v. Wade, Newsom is an anxious wreck. Abortion is the sacred sacrament of the Progressives. They are the Cult of Death. How dare the Courts reject their precious device of sacrifice.
Therefore California is considering a state constitutional amendment to protect murder in the womb (and out of the womb?), especially in case the world turns upside down and Democrats loose control of California and the hate-filled Republicans outlaw abortion. Newsom promised that California taxpayers would gladly pay for the transportation of persons seeking abortions from other states, in the event their state outlaws murder in the womb.
Even before the SCOTUS leak, California legislative warriors passed a bill protecting anyone (because men can have babies, too) who gives birth and neglects that life to the point of death several weeks later. Otherwise known as infanticide.
While I have not addressed the economic issues in California, I know the state is becoming financially unprofitable for the middle class. You will either be part of the wealthy elite or the subsidized poor. But my real focus is that none of us can expect to be this rebellious, this arrogant, and this immoral and not expect judgment from God. I believe California is experiencing this far worse than most states.
Newsom is falling apart, and he's taking California with him. I actually feel embarrassed for him. He looks to be a wreck. He is beside himself that governors like DeSantis even exist. ( Newsom goes scorched earth...) In fact, these two governors could not be more polar extremes than they already are. California is an absolute moral disaster, outside and inside to its rotting core, from its arrogant government to its complicit and participatory electorate.
Another thing I pointed out to Newsom was that God appointed him to be governor, and he will be held accountable when he stands before God. All authority is given by God -- to reward good and punish evil. This is not how Newsom has governed.
I wonder -- just a wonder -- if God is not judging California harsher than the rest of this forsaken nation for its rebellious toward and disregard for God, life, and morality. Newsom is a fraud. He is corrupt and a liar. You can see in his body language, his words, and his hypocritical behavior. He desires power and control at the expense of liberty, freedom, and self-government. I wonder how he was even born in America; but obviously he was schooled under the World Economic Forum's Young Globalist Program and groomed for such a day as this.
But he seems mighty uncomfortable, and I pray that God is disturbing his conscience. I know it isn't because he read my letter. He never read my letter. But God can stir his mind and make him miserable, and all I can do is pray that it will either turn his mind to truth (in which he repents of all his wickedness) or God drives him mad, like Nebuchadnezzar, and ends his ambitious climb to the top of all power and control.
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