[ScottinVA]

This is a sad account of how socialism, unbridled third-world invasion and gross mismanagement have destroyed California.

[GeronL]

What is happening to Kalipornia is entirely predictable given all of those self-imposed circumstances.

[dragnet2]

California is doomed..Thread # 9,573

[CrazyIvan]

Cubafornia?

[La Lydia]

Everyone in the country ought to have to read this and ask themselves if this is what they want for their state. We are being turned into a third world country before our very eyes, and only a few have noticed.

[re_nortex]

Jim:

You're in an ideal position as a Fresno resident (and as our fearless leader) to assess whether the NRO article is accurate or not.

Are the perceptions of Victor Davis Hanson accurate?

I had always thought that the Central Valley was the better part of California compared to the communist coastal regions. I know that Bakersfield seemed nice and sane compared to Los Angeles during a recent visit but I've never been to Fresno.

[PGR88]

It is almost as if the more California regulates, the more it does not regulate

How true it is!!

I have lived in or visited several socialist/communist countries - and that is exactly the case. Everything is regulated or illegal, but nothing is controlled. The more that is regulated, the more chaos actually results.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Good post!

[theDentist]

Is this the area where the jackwagons turned off the water to the fields because of a frikkin’ fish?

[Uncle Hal]

I grew up in the central valley and now several of its counties rank as the poorest in the country. Very revealing article. How sad.

[Oatka]

So there is a surreal nature to these protests: [against deportation] something like, “Please do not send me back to the culture I nostalgically praise; please let me stay in the culture that I ignore or deprecate.”

Spot On. The liberals aren't the only ones who are hypocrites.

[Califreak]

>How odd that we overregulate those who are citizens and have capital to the point of banishing them from the state, but do not regulate those who are aliens and without capital to the point of encouraging millions more to follow in their footsteps. How odd — to paraphrase what Critias once said of ancient Sparta — that California is at once both the nation’s most unfree and most free state, the most repressed and the wildest.<

[Presbyterian Reporter]

I do not spend my travel dollars in California nor do I buy municipal issued in California.

Let’s starve these California Communists and just maybe the populace will revolt and remove these Marxists from office.

[Ranger Warrior]

I also posted this in NRO. I’ve spent most of my adult life in California, and I have lived and worked in both Californias. For several years, I lived in the San Joaquin Valley and the Sacramento Valley, and didn’t realize how rich and enjoyable that experience was until I had spent nearly 15 years in the San Francisco Bay area. Drawing contrasts does not begin to define each region. It was the imagery of the Big Valley and the Sierras that defined California for me. I knew and lived and embraced diversity without knowing that it was some sort of label. Farming was the dominant industry for this state. Other than winter skiing, most urban, i.e. coastal, dwellers have no conception of what lies beyond the coast range, except it’s a microcosm of “flyover” country. It is the liberalism of the coastal regions that has slowly yet increasingly eroded the overall state. It has become ridiculously and insanely expensive to remain in the Bay area, yet I can’t go home to the valley, because what I knew and loved is gone. The liberals captured California, lot, stock and barrel in November, going against the tide of the rest of America. This time, California was no longer the trend setter. The ilk of Jerry Brown & Co. in Sacramento along with the ilk representing California in Washington will take this once fine state further down into the dark pit. The state will go broke, and there will no way to bail it out. As just a minor yet poignant example, when traveling in Arizona a few months back, I could not help but notice the beautiful roadways and how smooth the car felt. California used to be like that, in more ways than smooth highways. Now, it’s just one pothole after another, and all the band aids in the world are not going to fix what’s wrong here. No, like a growing number of Californians, when retirement comes in the next couple of years, I will leave this state. I will have a bitter longing for what once was yet has been decimated for good.

[hattend]

Bump for later read

[WilliamHouston]

Diversity is our strength.

[Servant of the Cross]

KAL-EEE-FORN-EE-A and VDH ping.

[libstripper]

Atlas Shrugged coming to us all, courtesy of DemonRats and RINOs.

[Mark17]

This is a sad account of how socialism, unbridled third-world invasion and gross mismanagement have destroyed California.

Yep. Maybe I will turn out the lights when I am finally able to leave the state.

[HiJinx]

Ping!

[goldstategop]

Only liberals could create an apartheid society in America and they don’t seem to mind it exists.

Not at all.