How California Destroyed its Middle Class (A Cautionary Tale) - Victor Davis Hanson [12 minute video]

YouTube ^ | May 5, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

[grundle]

Victor Davis Hanson explains how the middle class in California is struggling due to high taxes and heavy regulations that fall heavily on small business owners. As a result, many are leaving the state, causing the middle class to shrink and leaving California with the highest number of homeless people and welfare recipients in the US.

[dljordan]

In before ‘you voted for it’.

[ArtDodger]

2 comments:
We’ve known for a long time the left’s plan to eliminate the middle class. So, push them out of the state now. Deal with them wherever they land at another time. Like the Nazi’s deported the Jews out of Germany and dealt with them later when they took over Poland.
Also, by chasing out the middle class, their properties fall in value and can be snapped up at bargain prices. Later, the new owners can allow themselves incentives to develop and sell these properties at huge profit.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Hanson is amazing. He speaks so plainly and so understandably. He can dissect problems like nobody else and draw parallels with and connections to ancient history.

I’ve watched him evolve on politics and civic issues the past 15 or 20 years. He is sounding the alarm a lot more forcefully now, but I detect that he is a lot more pessimistic that we can right this listing ship.

Thanks for posting this. I wouldn’t have found it otherwise. I listen to his audio podcasts all the time, especially on hikes and walks about town.

[butlerweave]

Politicians destroying everything

[Bonemaker]

Communists/democrats use the term bourgeoisie,

[Bonemaker]

California had a chance to rid itself of the despicable Newsome for Larry Elder but oh no. Either by treachery or the ignorance of voters they blew it.

[Leaning Right]

I don’t know who said it first. But with a heavy heart, I must agree.

“As goes California, so goes the nation.”

If you doubt that things could fall apart so fast, go back to California in 1968.

Ronald Reagan was governor.
Both US senators were Republican.

We’re on a one-way trip, and in the wrong direction.

[Reily]

It still would have left their execrable legislature.
Not sure Elder could have done much if he had won.

[sauropod]

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[Alberta's Child]

In 1967, California governor Ronald Reagan signed one of the most liberal state abortion statutes in the U.S. into law.

Beneath the beautiful weather and the strong economy of the post-WW2 period in California, I tend to believe the state was always a leftist sh!thole at its core.

"Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept ... the plastic asshole of the world." -- William Faulkner

That's an epic assessment there.

[grimalkin]

Soon it will be the kings in charge and the dirty, poor masses underneath begging for scraps. This is what happens when you destroy the middle class.

[njslim]

Hanson is (or was) a registered democrat

In recent years as the chaos increased moved more and more toward Trump

In 1980’s would have called himva Reagan Democrat

[No name given]

I think it was both.

[No name given]

Yes, unfortunately.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Hanson is a fifth generation Californian. He still lives in and runs the Central Valley farm which has been
in his in is family for all those generations. He is a businessman and a teacher. Few are as well qualified to
discuss California 's toxic ills than Victor David Hanson.

[drwoof]

Yep. An economic powerhouse, with absolutely everything going for it: Ports, minerals, oil, timber, agriculture, tourism, weather, natural beauty, aerospace industries, top schools, etc. And somehow... SOMEHOW we end up overtaxed, broken, and with our citizens fleeing. Huh. Imagine that.

[Huskrrrr]

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[Dr. Scarpetta]

Thanks for posting this. I just passed it along.

[Taxman]

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