California is a disaster.
What once was a shining star among our states, a place where people from all over the country relocated to have a better, happier life, has degenerated into an unholy mess of world-class proportion.
How bad has California become?
Victor Davis Hanson, in his latest commentary, gives us chapter and verse. Here is how it begins:
By any measure, California is a failed state—and a national embarrassment.
Taxes? It has the highest income and gas taxes in the nation.
Roads? A Reason Foundation survey ranks it 49th among the states.
Mass flight? Between 250,000 and 350,000 more Californians leave the state than move in each year. Housing, gas, insurance, and electricity prices? The highest in the continental U.S.
Illegal aliens, the poor, the homeless, the foreign-born, and welfare recipients? The largest numbers in the U.S.
Public K–12 schools? Test scores in the bottom quartile.
Poverty? Twenty percent live below the poverty line.
So, what happened to the nation’s most richly naturally endowed—and once best governed—state?
The Left took total control—after millions of the embattled middle class fled. Millions more impoverished immigrants, legal and illegal, took their place. Left-wing Silicon Valley spawned some of the wealthiest elite liberal enclaves in the world.
The result was a neo-feudal society that was hardly democratic.
Millions of subsidized poor compose the bottom. A beleaguered middle continues to shrink. An ultra-rich apparat of left-wing coastal professionals and investors rules from the top.
As upper-bracket taxpayers fled, taxes rose on those who remained to fund expanding entitlements for newly arrived poor would-be residents. In turn, even more of the middle class left.
The remaining pyramidal economic structure ensured a Democratic monopoly—further entrenched by changing balloting laws, gerrymandering voting districts, vote harvesting, fueling public employee unions, and ignoring or undermining popular referenda.
What a mess. What a downfall. What a horror story of one-party rule gone terribly bad.
Let me ask you a question: if this were a state dominated by Republicans, and it degenerated this far, this fast…do you think our wonderful “neutral” media would be reporting about it?
Another question for you: assuming that your answer to the first question is “yes, of course they would be”, how extensively has the disaster that Democrat-dominated California is experiencing been reported by those same media?
When do they realize that covering it up/looking the other way does not make California’s degeneration better or more acceptable. All it does is demonstrate – as if we needed another demonstration – how biased a great many of our media are.
One more question: since Gavin Newsom has been the governor of California for almost 8 years, and its degeneration not only continued but accelerated during that time, do you think these media just might start blaming him for it and pointing out his deficiencies/failures there as an indication of what kind of president he’d be?
I’ll wait for you to stop laughing……
