I won't ask for exact years, but turning San Francisco from a surprisingly low-rent and culturally rich town to a neoliberal fortress of arrogance took a few decades to reach its current state. There were still nice things at the turn of the century and beyond, only slowly being pushed out by gentrification and Silicon Valley startups doing a localized Manifest Destiny by crowding everyone else out wherever possible.

I have a lot of bigoted biological family members and I'm not far from the "Bible Belt of California" where you'll know you're there by all the banners strewn along the farm roads talking about "water rights" and other chud buzzwords like that. Basically, there was an attempt to restore some wetlands as far south as the San Joaquin Valley and the reactionary rage about that among farmer chuds never ended.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its fine I can say when. It would have been around 2005.

Its funny my city has like the opposite problem with wetlands. Conservative NIMBYs who don't want more poor people here try to fight housing development by citing wetlands, even though they're full of shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The weather is never good, if you read the local papers. There's always some rich farmers complaining about it, be it too much rain, too much sun, whatever it takes to demand more coddling from this ostensibly "blue" state.

Chanting about water is like chanting about being "tough on crime." It doesn't need to result in changes, even bad changes, but chuds will line up for it and vote anyway.