Literally there's tons of Californians here who don't even agree to the mainstream beliefs and doctrines you'd see on the internet or in your personal life and most of them are as average as any other Americans outside of the state. I've interacted with my statesmen when I was in college or just from daily walks in my neighborhood, including family members, and all of them agree they don't like the current overall state California, nor do they agree with more extreme folks like SJWs and Socialists. Hell, some even questioned other Californians when they move out just to vote for the same policies that made them leave in the first place and there was a time not long ago when all of California was unanimously enraged when our state governor was caught red handed going against the mandates and policies, he personally legislated them into law last year during the pandemic.
I've only met two people who actually FIT into the description when you think of Californians and believe me, they have no clue on how economics actually work nor how understandably angry the other states in the union have gotten because of the mass exodus of Californians (and other Americans coming from Democrat-dominant states) leaving to other states. Hell, one of them,
who smokes weed on a daily basis, told me how everything I said to him and my cousin how the mandates and stimulus checks here was actually doing more harm than good was a "republican narrative" to him and attempts to bring his shitty brand of politics that I keep hearing from the news here and from bad college professors. Again, he was one of the two Californians I met that fit into that stereotype.
It's frustrating as hell and it makes me feel mentally tired when I see people online and constantly joke about my state being a shithole and while I agree with the sentiment that the current state of California is terrible, it's not doing anyone's favor when everyone could do is point and laugh and treat it as a go to punching bag. Fucking hell man!
Rant over.