Posted on 01/18/2016 8:18:55 AM PST by rktman
Hanson blames the current state of affairs on the modern, elite liberals who controlled the levers of power in California throughout its decline. These "richerals" - a term he coined for rich, cool liberals who shelter themselves from the real world in a cocoon of wealth - reshaped the state to fit their vision of utopia.
All the while they used their clout to escape the effect of the high taxes and regulations they imposed on others, namely the middle class and people who settled away from the coast.
"California is run from a sort of Pacific Versailles, an isolated coastal compound of elite rulers physically cut off from its interior peasantry," Hanson says.
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So now it’s Welcome to the Hotel California!
Who could have known that the Eagles were so prescient?
Mostly part of the “problem” themselves. We used to refer to it as ‘velvet handcuffs’.
Two words: Liberal elitists.
“The “energized chaos†of the new California, Hanson writes, “is sometimes exciting to experience in the flesh for brief moments but ultimately enervating for those residents who must scramble to survive it.—
From a great state to a failed state in one generation and
as Clownifornia goes so does the rest of the country.
Now the liberal eyes are on Texas and all those Califoricators
are on their way. Don’t know whats worse, the Claifools or
the wetbacks. They both have their hands out and they
both vote for who ever promises them the most out of other
peoples pocket.
The government bureaucracy in Sacramento is entirely run by UC California system-trained leftists. And the elected officials are even worse.
It is too late for California.
Take a drive on one of California’s once scenic highways, they are now lined with trash, and overpasses are pock marked with gang graffiti. I guess when you support millions of welfare illegals, little things like highway maintenance are too costly.
Orange and San Diego Counties are not too shabby. But LA County is frayed at best. The roads around LAX resemble a war zone.
Why blame the rich coast liberals when a majority of the people who voted, voted for the commies?
I live among the fools.
I could see it coming back in the 1970’s. I left CA for good in 1987.
Illegal Immigration has destroyed the state of California and it will soon finish-off the rest of they country. Just as soon as Texas goes blue. And the one guy offering to bring this invasion to a screeching halt is Donald Trump, who is under a withering assault from the Cheap Labor cabal GOPe, International Progressivists, the Media, and yes, even members of this board.
Close the borders. Or die. It’s as simple as that.
The surface streets are not much better. On Saturday night I hit a pothole on Harbor Drive in San Diego. For those unfamiliar with San Diego, Harbor Drive is major thoroughfare - a divided six lane road and the principal access road for our airport. The impact blew out my front left tire. The AAA repair person said I was his third customer in two weeks who had hit that pothole. I will make a claim against the city. Eventually, the city will send out one of our classic road repair crews: one guy digging and three guys watching him dig. When I lived in Orange County in the mid-Sixties, California had the best roads and public schools in the world. Now they are among the worst in the nation. I believe the principal reason for our decline has been the unionization of public employees, but there are other causes as well.
I lived in La Jolla back in the ‘80s, it was the best of times, about to sell the San Francisco house and move back down there for semi-retirement - working part time in a vacation land location. Life will be nice again.
The best California I ever saw was when I first spent time in the state in 1968. Great and efficient highways, beautiful scenery, affordable, clean, not so crowded, super high education standards, great colleges and universities. After spending on and off 25 years in the state culminating in 2012, I saw a state overcrowded, unaffordable, worst roads in the country, lack of water due to lack of vision, nightmare commutes, horrible schools and colleges, hospitals and social services due to inundation of millions of illegals and much much worse. Other than climate and scenery, the Golden State is now in such disrepair, unmanageable, under a corrupt and incompetent government.
I was fortunate to be born in California in ‘49 and raised between there and Hawaii. Both were once a paradise.
Today, both places serve as a warning....
Agreed.
We must also deport those here illegally.
It’s why God kicked man out of paradise after the fall. He knew liberals would ruin it anyway.
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