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California Survey
 
 

 

Where Socialism, Up-speak, & Feeling Sorry Work So Well
The result of a 40 year experiment in anything goes and everyone is equal.
Could even Californians be swinging back from LaLa Land & Wackoville?

On October 7, 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger won the gubernatorial recall election and became California's governor.

Even Gray Davis -- a democrat -- could not serve out a second term after proving his incompetence.
Again, The US of A (and even California) proved that ours is the Land of Opportunity.
In the USA there are mechanisms for overcoming bad leadership.
Again, The US of A (and even California) proved that power can be transferred without civil war, military coup or ethnic cleansing.

1.   I remember when the University of California at Berkeley was known as the top US school for chemistry and physics. Yes, that was before the mid-'60's
No, I didn't know that

2.   I remember how the U C Berkeley, known as Cal, deteriorated during the mid-'60's and 70's when the juveniles took over Sproul Hall, the administration building, used the chancellor's desk as a toilet, performed ad hoc marriages in the halls, lectured equality and human rights to the world from the front steps, and fought the police who were trying to clean up and restore the campus to a rational center of quality higher education. Yes, that was in the later '60's
No, I didn't know that

3.  I remember when the uncontrolled, free-living, unbounded, drug users were confined to the Haight-Asbury district of San Francisco. Yes, that was in the later '60's
No, I didn't know that

4.  I remember how the atmosphere changed from high academic standards to something that was unraveling and evolving into open-ended academic standards so that anyone could be included. Yes, that was in the later '60's
No, I didn't know that

5.  I remember that with the open-ended academic standards came the drug users, daily protestors and people rioting over issues ranging from civil rights to Viet Nam. Yes, that was in the later '60's
No, I didn't know that

6.  I remember that open-minded colleges and universities were turned into dirty centers of protesting and carefree vagaries where academics were discarded to make room for endless pseudo-philosophical inane talk, cutting classes, rioting, and lowered academic standards. Today I see that many who refused to regularly attend and work hard in middle and high school to ensure their achievement were admitted for no reason other than they had not achieved, but were from a lower socio-economic background. Yes, that was after about 1970
No, I didn't know that

7.   I remember how after Berkeley was taken over (circa 1970) by lowered standards and the feelings of all inclusiveness, the spirit of nihilism spread to many of the nation's colleges and universities. Yes, that was after about 1970
No, I didn't know that

8.   Today's lowered standards in our educational system have existed for so many years and permeated across our culture for so long that we have a lowered educational norm across our entire population. Agree
Disagree

9.   Today's obvious lack of personal responsibility that we see at work, observe while driving, and witness in our nation's inability to encourage substantive leadership in public office, originated in the philosophy of Include Everyone In Every School And Business Regardless Of Individual Capabilities and Work Ethics. Agree
Disagree

10.   I recognize how the less well educated bring lower capabilities, low study and work standards, and drug habits with them when they enter the mainstream educated culture. Agree
Disagree

11.   I recognize how lowering academic entrance and job hiring standards to include the under-qualified results in a less-qualified culture, less competitive business environment, and further lowered standards within the educational system. Agree
Disagree

12.   Starting in the 1960's, California became been known as the place where anything goes and everyone is free to do what ever he, she or it wants to at anytime anywhere -- from drugs to cultural oddities to easing admission standards on UC Berkeley admissions to Hollywood's lifestyles and more.  Today's California is the product of that anything-goes culture. Agree
Disagree

13.   I think this survey makes no sense and was written by a right wing nut. Agree
Disagree
Or a left wing nut

14. If you answered 'Agree" to the previous question, please explain:

    --  California is $38 billion in debt;
    --  There is wide-spread drug usage and drug rehabbing is an industry;
    --  A large portion of California's population is long-term homeless;
    --  A large portion of California's population lives in poverty;
    --  Cultural elements live out-of-control lives negatively impacting others;
    --  Too many aliens and criminals live on government handouts;
    --  State government is in disarray & the governor has lost command.

Those problems are not the result of overdoing the Equality Theory and resulting nihilism.  The state of the state is due to:

15. Sometimes when I look around it's hard to believe that all people are made equal in skills and intellectual capabilities. Yes, I agree -- if I am allowed to
I don't yet understand

16. I see that all people are created and endowed equally with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Agree
Disagree

17. I am a: Female
Male

18. My age group is: Under 20
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-59
60-69
70 & older

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