We lived in Folsom for many years and I still own an insurance agency located there. Contrary to what people think, Folsom is a pretty conservative place. Most of California is pretty conservative it is just that politics are dominated by major metropolitan areas totally out of touch with the majority of the state.
This it is why it was interesting to learn that Bernie Sanders and AOC showed up at a rally in Folsom and apparently drew a large crowd of about 30,000. Bernie Sanders described Folsom as a pretty rural area, which would be quite a surprise to people who actually live there. In 2023 Folsom had over 84,000 residents and the city has grown significantly since then. It is one of the fastest growing cities in the country.
In addition, Folsom is a little over 18 miles from Sacramento. You know, Sacramento the Capital of California. There are a little over 2.2 million people living in the Sacramento metropolitan area. This is hardly what one would describe as “rural.”
Folsom is famous for Folsom prison, because of Johnny Cash’s hit song, “Folsom Prison Blues.” One would think that Johnny Cash spent time as a prisoner in Folsom prison, but he was never there until years after he wrote his song and that was to perform a concert for the prisoners.
By the way, the lyrics of the song are ridiculous. “When I was just a baby my mama told me “Son, always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns” But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry.”
Reno is in Nevada. Folsom is a California State prison. If you shoot someone in Reno, Nevada you don’t end up in Folsom, California. In addition, I have toured Folsom, Prison and while there are train tracks in Folsom, I doubt seriously one could hear a train whistle in Folsom Prison. Interestingly, you can’t actually see much of Folsom Prison from Folsom because it is located in a valley. Folsom Prison isn’t even technically in Folsom, it is in Repressa. Of course Repressa is in the middle of Folsom.
We know a lot of people in Folsom, so we asked them about the big rally. They just laughed and said people were bused in from other places and many of them were paid to be there.
In a way, Bernie Sanders, AOC, and the entire Democrat Party can be correctly described as the Folsom Prism Blues. A prism was designed to break up light into a spectrum allowing for spectral analysis. This allowed one to see precisely what made up an object. In other words, looking through a prism can provide a different perspective of things.
That is exactly what is happening to the Democrat Party. When we see the Democrat Party today, we see people like Bernie Sanders and AOC. We see leading Democrats flying to El Salvador, at taxpayer expense, hanging out by the pool in luxury resorts, to demand due process for a MS13 Gang Banger. We see lie after lie after lie. Trump is routinely compared to Hitler. Yet Democrats have no strategy, other than to give every illegal alien due process, allow transgender men to participate in women’s sports, and take every action that has the potential to stop Trump from governing, while offering absolutely no plan of their own. They confuse volume with substance and hope no one notices, but it is increasingly easy to see who they are, what they really stand for, and why they should never ever be trusted with political power again.
TDM