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California Shows The Limits Of Progressivism (by Victor Davis Hanson)
The National Interest ^ | Nov 3, 2019 | Victor Davis Hansen

Posted on 11/03/2019 7:41:16 AM PST by Mr. Mojo

Edited on 11/03/2019 9:36:32 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

More than 2 million Californians recently were left without power after the state

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalinterest.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: vdh

1 posted on 11/03/2019 7:41:16 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo
People think that socialism means free stuff. They have no real idea about who pays for all the services. They are now dependent on big brother. Of course it was all by design. But people dońt care any more as long as they get free stuff.
2 posted on 11/03/2019 7:46:02 AM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: Mr. Mojo

VDH always gives a good read. Thanks for posting.

I’m not too worried about Calif. Everything is self-correcting it is just you have to hit bottom first. Trouble is that the crazy libs are taking everyone for a ride as they drive off the cliff.


3 posted on 11/03/2019 7:50:21 AM PST by lowbuck (The Blue Card (US Passport) Don't leave home without it.)
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To: seawolf101
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic.” ― Benjamin Franklin
4 posted on 11/03/2019 7:51:44 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: lowbuck

PG&E are forced to buy “green” energy at a higher rate per KW, but the rate they can charge the users is fixed. The people voted in the assbite politicians that cave to the enviroweenies demands/campaign donations. So the state blocks tree removal/undergrowth, forces higher energy production and purchase costs which leaves less $$$ for transmission line maintenance, then sues PG&E when a fire breaks out that the state is partially responsible for. True socialist CA government....bought by the highest bidder, which often is the eviroweenies and Sierra Club, which has lost their vision decades ago.


5 posted on 11/03/2019 8:04:04 AM PST by davidb56
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"PG&E are forced to buy “green” energy at a higher rate per KW, but the rate they can charge the users is fixed. The people voted in the assbite politicians that cave to the enviroweenies demands/campaign donations. So the state blocks tree removal/undergrowth, forces higher energy production and purchase costs which leaves less $$$ for transmission line maintenance, then sues PG&E when a fire breaks out that the state is partially responsible for. True socialist CA government....bought by the highest bidder, which often is the eviroweenies and Sierra Club, which has lost their vision decades ago."

'Democrats are incompetent when it comes to governing.'

That’s not actually the case. They largely achieve what they are seeking to do. Their goal isn’t to make life more pleasant for middle class Californians. In fact they would like to replace us, as much as possible.

They very successfully transfer taxpayer money to themselves and their associates, in the name of the all the various programs that they fund.

6 posted on 11/03/2019 8:15:08 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The line that separated satire, Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (Thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: seawolf101
But people dońt care any more as long as they get free stuff.

The same sort who think that interest rates don't matter as long as they can afford monthly payments. Or think they don't pay taxes because they get a refund. You know ... morons.

7 posted on 11/03/2019 8:19:52 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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As a kid, grocery shopping with my mother, I was attracted to the breakfast cereals with a prize inside. My mother saw this and responded, “So you want my to spend $2 on a box of garbage so you can get a little plastic model car worth 2 cents.”


8 posted on 11/03/2019 8:25:27 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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California is just scraping at the limits. There is more goodness to come.


9 posted on 11/03/2019 8:30:50 AM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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When the democrats finish off the conservative farming counties by denying them water where will I get my strawberries and lettuce?


10 posted on 11/03/2019 8:33:37 AM PST by hardspunned
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Bkmk


11 posted on 11/03/2019 9:02:23 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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California also shows that we’re still stuck with a corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress left over from the lawless Obama Administration that is stubbornly refusing to do its constitutionally enumerated duties to protect citizens.

More specifically, Congress is refusing to do its duties to not only guarantee each state a republican form of government by ignoring the will of legal majority voting citizens, but neither is Congress exercising its 14th Amendment (14A) enumerated powers to stop activist state actors from abridging the 1st Amendment protected rights of California citizens.

From the 14th Amendment:

Consider that a ray of hope for California is that 14A protections have recently been enforced at UC Berkeley of all places.

UC Berkeley settles landmark free speech lawsuit, will pay $70,000 to conservative group

Problem is that taxpayers, not Berkeley offending state actors, will probably pay compensation.

The remedy for constitutionally failed federal and state governments…

Patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will not only promise to fully support PDJT’s great work on MAGA, now KAG, but will also do this.

The new patriot Congress also needs to promise to do it constitutional duties to make penal laws to discourage state actors from not only ignoring the will of California’s legal majority citizen voters, but also stop the state from oppressing citizens by ignoring their constitutionally enumerated protections.

Remember in November 2020!

MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)

12 posted on 11/03/2019 9:35:55 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: lowbuck

The environment and weather here will keep
People coming

Stark difference between nor cal and so cal

We have redwood trees here And fog Los Angeles is a big mall with a beach


13 posted on 11/03/2019 10:27:33 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Mr. Mojo

You spelled his last name incorrectly. ;)

(I know it wasn’t you.)


14 posted on 11/03/2019 3:53:38 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: Grampa Dave
That’s not actually the case. They largely achieve what they are seeking to do. Their goal isn’t to make life more pleasant for middle class Californians. In fact they would like to replace us, as much as possible.

The following article is old, but worth reading: Immigration and Usurpation - Real reason why your Senator wants this immigration amnesty bill.

15 posted on 11/04/2019 7:17:48 AM PST by zeugma (I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
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