Like, I fucking wish they were. As a California (and especially a Bay Area) resident, we wouldn’t have to deal with the bullshitery of living under sky-high costs as tech billionaires and landleeches have the privilege to simply walk all over us. Like, California is as much a part of the Capitalist American country as Mississippi… in fact maybe even more so with the presence of Silicon Valley and all the companies stationed over there. Along with this, a communist California would not allow themselves to become such a car-centric hellhole that it is. Yet, no matter how much the Californian government will suck up to lobbyists and billionaires, they will still be called communists for doing the absolute bare minimum for women’s and LGBT+ rights and for having restrictive gun laws (which was actually implemented by none other than their messiah, Ronald Reagan out of the fear of the Black Panthers).
Like, I want to live inside their fantasy of a communist California. It would do away with so much of the bullshitery that I have to deal with living here.
The average American conservative loses their mind even attempting to imagine other countries. California is the furthest left place they can conceive of without it being completely alien to them. All other countries to conservatives are hellish Mad Max wastelands or cartoonish totalitarian 1984 style police states.
Describe what life is like for the average Belgian person and American chuds will regard it as hellish dystopia. They think notoriously right-wing Poland is socialist. I've described how the transportation network in Japan works to a conservative and he was quick to describe it all as communism, even though all the rail networks are private. The only life worth living that an American chud can conceive in their peanut brains is a white suburb in Scottsdale, Arizona where you drive a lifted F150. The truck is never used to haul anything. And while you do live in your house, the main use is waiting until you pay off the mortgage so you can rent it or sell it. That's the entire point of life for these people. How easy is it to become a landlord or a used car lot dealer. Any country that restricts those two things, or has a different sort of market, is indistinguishable from total hell. Freedom is: car, suburb, landlording, white neighborhood, ornamental firearms, and a domestic housewife.