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The Los Angeles Times blames Republicans for California’s woes
American Thinker ^ | 8 Sep, 2024 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 09/08/2024 1:55:05 PM PDT by MtnClimber

One of the hallmarks of narcissism is that when things go wrong, it’s always someone else’s fault. Being a narcissist means never having to say you’re sorry. Nothing more perfectly illustrates this truism than an essay from yesterday’s Los Angeles Times blaming Republicans for California’s myriad woes. While the author is correct that, when Republicans had the chance, they didn’t make smart decisions, the reality is that it’s the Democrats who have led California to the desperate place it’s in now.

Steve Lopez’s essay doesn’t make the mistake of blaming Republicans for all the state’s problems. He concedes that Democrats have long controlled the former Golden State, which is plagued by homelessness, crime, out-of-control housing costs, and poverty.

He contends, however, “that none of that happened overnight, nor did it happen exclusively under Democratic leadership.” Lopez believes that Republican mismanagement during the times that Republicans controlled the government is as much to blame as Democrat mismanagement.

The easy challenge to that argument is that, since 1970, the legislature has had a Democrat majority, which became a vetoproof supermajority in 2018. Moreover, Democrats have held the governor’s office nonstop since 2011. For the seven years before that, the governor was Arnold Schwarzenegger, who ran as a Republican but governed as a Democrat. In other words, Republicans have had a shrinking say in California’s governance for decades, so it’s really hard to blame them for the current problems.

Nevertheless, Lopez makes a valiant effort. I’ll quickly go through what he gets right and what he gets wrong and then wrap up with all the awful Democrat policies that have truly brought the Golden State to its knees.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: andreawidburg; california; disinformation; losangelesslimes; losangelestimes; marxism; projection; trysellingthetruth
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1 posted on 09/08/2024 1:55:05 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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The marxists try to blame others. I am (not) shocked.


2 posted on 09/08/2024 1:55:17 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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Push the blame on somebody else, huh? The major cities and a great many smaller ones were led by dimmocraps. Disastrous libtard policies were dreamed up by dimmocraps. California has become a parody of a state. But the joke’s not funny.


3 posted on 09/08/2024 1:58:36 PM PDT by EinNYC
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sure...because republicans have been the party of power in California since NEVER!


4 posted on 09/08/2024 1:59:13 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
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Somebody make these morons shut up.

Republicans haven't been in charge of anything in California FOREVER!

You own this, libs.

5 posted on 09/08/2024 2:02:31 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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When the left blames both sides for a mess it’s an admission on their part they know it’s their fault.


6 posted on 09/08/2024 2:06:39 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: MtnClimber

IT IS the republican’s fault, there isn’t enough of them to make us stop doing stupid $h!t.


7 posted on 09/08/2024 2:08:36 PM PDT by Dad was my hero
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To: MtnClimber

Liberalism is just mass narcissism.


8 posted on 09/08/2024 2:09:01 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Meanwhile...

Longtime California Dem leader says 'adios' to her party and registers with GOP because 'I've had enough'
9 posted on 09/08/2024 2:11:35 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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Inverted “logic” from Esteban Lopez is a hallmark of the kind of inane “thinking” that turned his own country into the disgusting dystopia it is.


10 posted on 09/08/2024 2:13:01 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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But, but, Democrats are smart and in the majority while dumb Republicans have little power. How do dumb Republicans keep outsmarting Democrats and making them look bad?


11 posted on 09/08/2024 2:13:36 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The world is driven by envy, not greed.)
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LA Times writer is the reason we have the word Leftarded.


12 posted on 09/08/2024 2:14:45 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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If the Democrats tried to be honest, they’d have to disband as a political entity.


13 posted on 09/08/2024 2:19:17 PM PDT by BobL
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Californians votes in prop 187 which barred illegals from public services, and a federal judge shot it down, and Grey Davis never pursued relitigating it. It’s her fault.


14 posted on 09/08/2024 2:20:56 PM PDT by struggle
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You stupid liberal brain falling out fools living in californication are your own problem. DEAL WITH IT or move out of the way so REAL Americans can...


15 posted on 09/08/2024 2:32:25 PM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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Our last conservative Republican governor was George Deukmejian (1983-1991). His successor, Petie Wilson, was a pro-abort, tax-raising RINO.


16 posted on 09/08/2024 2:39:23 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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100% La Times


17 posted on 09/08/2024 2:40:50 PM PDT by A strike ("Rise Peter, kill and eat.")
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This is the West Coast media, which is full of liberals, preaching to the choir.(They know their readership.)

No matter how much political power the democrats accrue in California, Oregon, & Washington the evil Republicans are always the problem.


18 posted on 09/08/2024 2:40:54 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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For every liberal, leftist plan and program:

     "We Don’t Bear Responsibility"

- DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Feb. 11, 2024


19 posted on 09/08/2024 2:41:29 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: struggle
Californians votes in prop 187 which barred illegals from public services, and a federal judge shot it down, and Gray Davis never pursued relitigating it.

One man nullifies the votes of millions. So much for "democracy."

20 posted on 09/08/2024 2:43:40 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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