Posted on 06/07/2018 10:51:22 AM PDT by rktman
California's primary elections Tuesday underscored the Golden State's liberal drift, but one of the candidates who lost the race for governor powerfully diagnosed "progressive" policies as the root of California's snobbish inequality. He compared the state to the dystopian nightmare of "Elysium," a 2013 film about a highly stratified society where the poor struggle to live on planet Earth while the rich enjoy a lavish life off planet.
"This is the story about a real-world 'Elysium' — a state which has the highest levels of poverty & inequality in the country but whose residents have convinced themselves that they are behaving ethically, protecting the environment, and fighting racism," Mike Shellenberger, an environmental activist who ran for governor, tweeted.
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Ya think???
He wasn’t a contender. Barely got a half of a percent of the vote.
I wonder if he can win. Watched him on news—a bit of limp-wristed mannerisms—but great sound bites. These are more great sound bites. But will they hit home with enough California voters?
Sorry! Thought they were talking about Cox. Anyway, I was referencing Republican Cox.
Hey now. Half a percent is NOT zero, so in his GMO addled mind, he’s a contend-duh.
I watched the Elysium dystopia.
I noticed that the ‘earthlings’ [as opposed to those in the elite space habitat, Elysium] were poor and living in a slum. The main character wanted to get to Elysium because they had medicine and lived in luxury.
The ole green-eyed-monster syndrome — so he invades Elysium and tries to destroy their luxurious habitat.
The ‘earthlings’, in typical Lib dystopia fashion, never bother to clean up their slum or improve their standard of living. Instead, they pine to be in Elysium. Most likely, if they did reach Elysium, they, like the main character, would try to destroy it.
As a Hollywood theme, it is rinse, swish, spit, repeat — those who have more must have acquired it at the expense of others; therefor, the impoverished have a right to take it from them.
They call him an environmental activist but it sure sounds like he understands exactly what’s wrong with California. Far from being a far left wacko like most “environmental activists”, he sounds like a solid libertarian or conservative to me.
Wow. There ain’t no flies on this guy, huh?
I'm stunned that he calls himself a Democrat. He's even pro-nuclear.
They put “mental” in environmental.
The middle class in California is ENORMOUS.
There are over 8 million single family homes in this state.
A lot are conservative but not enough apparently.
And too many of them are female, and dumber than a box of rocks...
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