|governor=Gavin Newsom
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|senator1=Dianne FeinsteinLaphonza Butler
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|senator2=Alex Padilla
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|date=September 9, 1850 (31st)
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{{See also|California values}}'''California''', known as the (Golden State), became the 31st state on September 9, 1850. It is located on the west coast of the [[United States]], by the [[Pacific Ocean]] and bordered by [[Oregon]], [[Nevada]] and [[Arizona]]. It is the largest state in population but it is projected to be surpassed by [[conservative]] [[Texas]] in 2045. California's governor is [[Gavin Newsom]]. It has served as a poster child for [[liberalism]]<ref>Ronayne, Kathleen (October 20, 2019). [https://www.apnews.com/0e56c241e9014080842485932185fd70 California relishes role as liberal trendsetter, Trump foe]. ''Associated Press''. Retrieved October 21, 2019.</ref> since the 1960s, as in [[Hollywood values]] and [[San Francisco values]], especially [[Los Angeles]] and [[San Francisco]]. California is an illustration of the failure of [[liberal]] policies, featuring one of the worst educational systems in the world and losing many high-achievers to other states, especially [[Texas]]. The gap between rich and poor in California is more severe than anywhere, and homelessness is epidemicendemic. The top five most polluted areas in the entire country are in California (by year-round particle pollution),<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/04/22/california-worst-east-coast-best-air-quality/7400570001/</ref> while increasing wildfire smoke from liberal mismanagement of forests further harms air quality. "Close to 98% of Californians live in a county impacted with poor air quality," and overall California is ranked as the worst state in the Nation on this issue.<ref>https://www.ktvu.com/news/california-has-the-worst-air-quality-in-the-country-study-finds</ref>
The California drought is worsened by its water-wasteful [[cannibis]] crop, which [[cannibis cannabis water use|consumes double the water]] of ordinary crops.
'''''Despite its relative wealth, California is one of the ten least charitable states in the country'''''.<ref>https://digg.com/data-viz/link/most-least-charitable-states-us-america-visualized-tGBvU8Vm0Y</ref> California and [[New York]]'s [[Leftism]] loots the [[Midwest]] in [[Congress]] with repeated legislation that transfers monies money to wasteful programs concentrated in those [[liberal]] states, as the fraudulently named [[Inflation Reduction Act]] of 2022 did. [[Speaker of the House]] [[Nancy Pelosi]] and [[Vice President]] [[Kamala Harris]], as backup to the demented [[Joe Biden]] are both from northern California.
California courts also loot the [[Midwest]] with court decisions that nearly bankrupt productive companies, such as Monsanto over the unscientific hype of harm about Roundup.
However, the California economy has surpassed the [[atheist]]ic [[United Kingdom]], which illustrates that an atheistic ideology (which prevails in the UK) is even less productive than a [[liberal]] one. Still, liberals have run California into the economic ground. In 2012, its [[leftist]] politicians proposed making its citizens pay an extra $9-billion in new taxes, with half of that going into [[government]] pensions.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/15/how-california-budget-blunders-led-to-my-divorce-from-golden-state/</ref> In 2015, California faces a worsening water shortage after years of failed liberal policies toward the problem. Attempts at voluntary self-restraint in the use of water have been unsuccessful in its far-Left culture. Additionally, the state has seen a large number of people leave the state(dubbed the California exodus), disappointed at the state's liberal governance.<ref>Adelmann, Bob (November 7, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/33972-california-shrinking-million-have-left-more-to-follow California Shrinking: A Million Have Left, More to Follow]. ''The New American''. Retrieved November 7, 2019.</ref> However, they then vote for the same failed policies in their new states: Colorado and Nevada are now solidly liberal, Arizona is trending such, and Texas is in danger of losing its conservative edge which has made it attractive for business. Critics refer to California as "Commiefornia", and a [[California exodus]] consists of many of its top companies and visionary business leaders leaving the state.
California takes by far the largest amount of federal subsidies ($43.61 billion), although its net taking of federal funds per resident is ranked at 41.<ref>https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/federal-aid-by-state</ref> The regulatory burdens imposed by California and its politicians on the rest of the country are substantial.
The state Constitution of California, like all of the other 50 states, acknowledges God or our Creator or the ''Sovereign Ruler of the Universe''. It says:
:''We, the People of the State of California, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure and perpetuate its blessings, do establish this Constitution.''
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{{quotebox-float|“[The mother] claims that one of the teachers coaxed her daughter to join a lunch-hour ‘Equality Club’ and began affirming her daughter as transgender. … Near the end of sixth grade, Konen’s daughter told her she might be bisexual, and by the middle of the seventh grade, Konen was called to the school for a meeting with her daughter, a teacher, and the school principal.”}}
The teacher reportedly told her that her daughter was “trans fluid. I sat across the table, and I was crying. I was trying to absorb everything. They kept looking at me angrily because I kept saying ‘she,’ and that it was going to take me time to time to process everything. I was very confused. … ... I was very upset. I was blindsided—completely blindsided,” she told the ''Times''.
The teacher accused the mother, Jessica Konen, of not being ’emotionally supportive’ of her daughter, who was to be called by a new name and male pronouns and would be using the unisex restroom at school, according to the ''Epoch Times.'' “I felt she completely coached my child,” the mother said, referring to the teacher. "It made me feel very, very small as a parent. I was unaware of anything. Not one time had she mentioned to me ‘Oh, I think that I want to change my name,’ or ‘I’m transgender’ or anything. Nothing. I only heard [[bisexual]] one time, and that was it,” she added.
A couple days later, the police showed up at the couple’s home because of a complaint to California Child Protective Services (CPS) that had been filed by the school. After the family met with CPS, the complaint was dropped. At the local school board meeting, the mother attested,
{{quotebox-float|“How can you let these teachers come in and act like they’ve done nothing wrong. A mistake? How many mistakes are we going to make before my child almost lost her life? They didn’t tell me that my child was suicidal. You allowed these teachers to open their classrooms teaching predatorial information to a young child, a mindful child who doesn’t even know how to comprehend it all. How do you not know what’s going on in your own campuses? Did you think no parent would ever come forward? You will not quiet me today. I will stand here today and protect my child, along with every other child who has not come forward yet. Do they have psychiatry degrees that I wasn’t aware of? Because I didn’t hire them. I didn’t hire them to sit there and nitpick my child’s brain. You took away my ability to parent my child, even before I had any knowledge. I didn’t even get to show support. Your job was to educate my child in math, science, English, etc. Do your job, and let me do mine!”}}
Also in attendance was the child’s father. He revealed that they’d been told by the teachers that their daughter is a supposed "transgender", they’d had the cops sicced on them for refusing to use the pronouns the teachers had assigned to the child. Jessica Konen’s Konen's father, Gunter Konen, alo poke at the meeting and expressed his outrage over the school’s school's handling of his granddaughter, explaining that she had been a straight-A student before she was indoctrinated by her teachers with their leftist gender theory.
The teachers were caught on an audiotape discussing several new strategies to hide their [[woke]] agenda in order to avoid any pushback from parents by pulling “mind-tricks” on 6th graders because too many kids had been talking to their parents about the indoctrination. The Spreckels Union School District has since suspended the teachers – with pay – pending the outcome of an independent investigation.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/must-watch-outraged-parents-demand-answers-leaked-training-audio-exposes-california-middle-school-teachers-conspiring-hide-lgbtq-indoctrination-parents/</ref>