Victor Davis Hanson is a brilliant thinker, brilliant commentator and brilliant writer.
He has used all these skills in his latest commentary which, in five minutes worth of reading, fully captures the disaster that the far leftists running California have turned this state into.
I am resisting the urge to post the entire piece, every word of it, below. But that would be unfair to Mr. Hansen. So here are just the first three paragraphs:
More than 2 million Californians were recently left without power after the state’s largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric — which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year — preemptively shut down transmission lines in fear that they might spark fires during periods of high autumn winds.
Consumers blame the state for not cleaning up dead trees and brush, along with the utility companies for not updating their ossified equipment. The power companies in turn fault the state for so over-regulating utilities that they had no resources to modernize their grids.
Californians know that having tens of thousands of homeless in their major cities is untenable. In some places, municipal sidewalks have become open sewers of garbage, used needles, rodents and infectious diseases. Yet no one dares question progressive orthodoxy by enforcing drug and vagrancy laws, moving the homeless out of cities to suburban or rural facilities, or increasing the number of mental hospitals.
Want more? There’s a ton of it. You’ve got the link above. Please, please read every word.
Then think about which presidential candidates are most likely to move the country in exactly the same direction as once-great California.
And be afraid. Very afraid.
As a Californian I can tell you it is an awful feeling having your state run by liberals.