I found the only “California mind” for me in Victor Davis Hanson.. he has great insight on many things and there are some vids on YouTube where he specifically addresses the issues of CA.
Law enforcement in California hinges on ignoring felonies to focus on misdemeanors and infractions. Or rather, if a Californian is deemed to be law-abiding, a legal resident, and with some means, the regulatory state will audit, inspect, and likely fine his property and behavior in hopes of raising revenue. That is a safe means of compensating for the reality that millions, some potentially dangerous, are not following the law, and can only be forced to comply at great cost and in a fashion that will seem politically incorrect.
Absolutely correct.
And sad.
Professor VDH describes the California Mind (so-called) quite well, albeit he doesn’t discuss some of the very worst aspects there (such as, the, in effect, one-party voting system where so often there are only two names on the ballot, both D’s)..tweedle dee and tweedle dum
what he fails to do is EXPLAIN why the California politicians have destroyed the Golden State, and why they persist ruining it
How many of those who cannot be held accountable are illegal aliens from Mexico? The Russia/Russia stuff was just bs to hide the real meddlers in American politics, the elite Mexican Rulers.
Who sent millions of their uneducated and unskilled and criminals to America/California/?? to live off our free benefits and to vote illegally at all levels of our government. Mexico equals the master meddlers in our country!
Undocumented Democrats and older Dreamers at work destroying legal Americans in America.
How much meddling in our country and elections comes from Mexico and other South of our border countries?
On a July 2017 program, Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough stared into the camera and invited people to contact him if they’re aware of a presidential campaign that accepted “oppo research or support” from a foreign power.
Hey, Mika/Joe how about Mexico interfering with every US election since LBJ was president with donations, bribes and millions of Illegal voters?
Carlos Slim* owns a large share of the NY Slimes and ensures that the Slimes has had daily hit pieces on Candidate and President Trump for close to two years!
They are exactly right. President Trump is not their president. He is Our President
This is their president! He is the biggest meddler in America Politics!
What Country provided at least 90% of the illegal voters in 2016. It wasn’t Russia/Russia!
Mexico has been interfering with our elections since LBJ was president. It wasn’t the evil Russians interfering with our elections. It has been and is the evil and elite white rulers of the Mexican Government and their illegals sent here forced to come here by the elite Mexican Rulers.
Last year, hundreds of illegal aliens and other sanctuary city advocates filled the Texas House gallery to protest a bill that will protect Texans from criminal illegal aliens.
During that protest some illegal aliens held signs saying ‘I am illegal and here to stay.’ Texas Republican Representative Matt Rinaldi then decided to call ICE on the self described illegals.
The Russia/Russia bs was and still is, just a rat and rino distraction from the real meddlers and real interfering evil scum of our elections. The Mexican Government, their illegals here, the rat politicians, and our Rino’s, who want them for their cheap labor and votes. These scumbags are the real meddlers in our election, not Russia!
Illegals and their liberal supporters threatening Texas legislators for daring to uphold our laws re immigration in the Gallery @ the Texas Legislature Building.
How many millions of $’s/Pesos has Mexico donated to our democrats to keep their illegals in America, since LBJ?
How much Mexican money did Obama and Clinton receive personally and for their elections?
How many illegal Mexicans voted for Illiarily in the 2016 election and for Obama's two terms?
How many illegal Mexicans voted for rats to control our cities, counties, states and of course at our federal level in 2016?
How many Hispanic tv channels like Univision, do we have on Comcast, Direct TV, Dish TV and other tv providers, that we pay for, and we don’t speak Spanish? Who owns those Spanish only channels? Why do we have to pay for Spanish TV channels/stations, when we don’t speak Spanish? Didn't these Hispanic channels/stations support Clinton in 2016?
Again: Who owns a large % of the NY Slimes and other US election meddling companies? See the * below for the answer.
It is past time for our Congress to stop the Mexican meddling/interference/hacking at every level in America.
How many millions of $’s has Mexico donated to the democrats to keep their illegals here, at every level, city, county, state and Federal level?
Again, the Russia/Russia bs was just a rat and rino distraction from the real meddlers and real interfering evil scum of our elections, the elite rulers of Mexico and their illegals in America.
ATTENTION RUSSIAN AGENTS AND SPIES! If you wish to collude with candidate Trump, take a number and be seated behind the millions of illegal Mexicans who have been meddling in American politics for decades.
The Mexican Government, their illegals here, the rat politicians controlled by them, and our Rino’s, who want them for their cheap labor and votes, are the real meddlers in our elections, not Russia!
It is time to enforce our standing laws against illegal Mexican immigration and Mexican illegals voting!
*Carlos Slim Helú (Spanish pronunciation:); born January 28, 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world.
The California solution is always the same: the law-abiding must adjust to the non-law-abiding.
And this is true in all blue states.
Ben Stein has written similar musings of late. He recently announced he is done writing. Both Stein and Hanson sound burnt-out. California is collapsing, like a slo-mo Venezuela.
This is a cancer on America that is not only not being treated, but is actively being spread as fast as possible by the Democrats and Communists believing that their half of the country will be able to rule the rest of us. This is going to end very badly for everyone.
Understanding the California Mind?
As Scottie from Star Trek would say, “It canna be done, Captain!!!”
VDH is a genius. Here he is in better days with his lovely daughter, who unfortunately died some years ago. :(
I have lived in Southern California my entire 46 years. It greatly depresses me to see how the state went from the epitomy of the finest quality of live in the USA to absolute worst. Essentially I have seen my state rapidly become a shithole.
Yes, mass illegal immigration and chain migration is a big part of it. But as even the illegals were taking over in the mid to late 90’s there were still more white people. But these white people turned their back on Conservatism after the failure of Daddy Bush’s term and they never came back. They continuously voted for illegal alien supporting Democrats on all levels. They voted for their own demise.
I still love my state as it once was. The Bay Area was always kooky, but not the America hating, illegal alien shithole it is now. SF used to be a fun town to visit, but now it is utterly unbearable and disgusting.
San Diego was always a beautiful city and a wonderful place to take your vacation. It was fine, conservative city. But now even San Diego is rapidly heading into shithole territory.
I was raised and still live in the far eastern reaches of LA County (Walnut, Diamond Bar, San Dimas, La Verne, Claremont, etc). Growing up it was staunchly Conservative. I would say still mostly Conservative, but changing rapidly. We never had homeless dopers in these communities, but now they do. These communities are expensive, yet you see illegals roaming these parts all the time. You see homes with Mexico flags in front. Itbwont be long before this area falls.
One of my favorite vacations to take is San Luis Obsipo for its great wine regions in SLO and Paso Robles. But even those nice small towns have illegals all about leaving their trash behind, homeless, stoned out millennneals in the town square.Just sad.
For me, the California destruction has left me greatly depressed. I thought about leaving, but
in visiting great places like ID, TN, IN, KY etc, I cant find a place where I can be comfortable and fit in. Alot of people tell me Texas, but it wont be long until Texas is Blue and on the same path of destruction CA is.
I am a Californian. This is my state. But it is heading for ruin. The people here vote only Democratic no matter what. They know the state is screwed up, but stick with the same politicians who did the damage. In 2018 we have two strong Republican candidates for Governor (Travus Allen and John Cox) but they are running a distant 3rd and 4th in the “Jungle Primary” polling. The two choices for Governor will be Gavin Newsome (who has recently aquired a Mexican accent on the campaign trail) and Antonio Villaragosa. All hope is lost here...yet I have no place to go.
VDH’s stoical delivery makes him the perfect commentator on CA. He makes a powerful point but he never oversells it.
Wow! From the sounds of it, even BC (aka ‘British California’) is not as bad as Commiefornia. The present NDP/Green coalition government in BC is trying as hard as they can, to match Commiefornia in it’s attempts to destroy itself.
They (BC gov) have issued a moratorium on an increase in the amount of diluted bitumen transported across BC from Alberta, to the Kinder Morgan facility in Burnaby. This has brought a halt to the development and building of the TransMountain Pipeline and no exports by sea, of oil from the Wet Coast.
In this country, inter-Provincial transportation, (ie: trains and pipelines) is, under the Canadian Constitution, the purview of the Federal government, which has already approved this pipeline.
It would be nice if all the left-wing tree hugging, granola-eating, hemp-wearing (and smoking) snowflakes in BC would move to the Gulf Islands. The BC Interior is much more conservative. As much as I loathe Nuttley, our NDP Premier, she is my commie Premier, as opposed to the even more vile BC commie Premier.
The leadership seems determined to make CA only affordable or desirable for the rich. For sooner or later, even the homeless & illegals wont want to live there. It is, after all, mostly desert.
Ultimately, welfare services will collapse, as will education & law enforcement. With no welfare, no jobs, no schools worth attending, & crumbling infrastructure, only those with substantial financial means will be able to afford to live comfortably there.
Over the years California has been extraordinarily lucky to have access to sources of great wealth - its tourism, the entertainment industry (especially the movies), and lately Silicon Valley - they have been able to indulge their socialist fantasies for a long time by sucking the assets out of these resources and spending down their wealth to pay for all the poor incapables and indolent they want to save, but that wealth is about gone - the west-coast movie/entertainment industry is about over, technological innovation is now worldwide, and California tourism will be shot once conditions such as VDH describes become more widely known - the worst is yet to come for the Golden State, and it is coming soon.....
