Eventually, we’ll need to send the 1st Marine Division to clean up fascist California. Okay, add the 101st Airborne, too.
This illegal eco-fascist state of California cannot be allowed to continue its existence in America. Either we subsume ourselves to Marxist slavery or be rid of it. I vote the latter.
Excellent article. I was about to post it when I saw that you beat me to it.
There is a reason the people in Latin American countries live as they do: it’s how they prefer to exist.
If they wanted to live like we do here, they would convert their countries into something other than arid, sun-baked, Third World poverty pits. But, as one who owns — and lives in — a home in Honduras, I can tell you that there is no great desire among the locals to live any differently than they do now, and have for centuries on end.
They have the resources. They have the talents. They have the energy. They have the intelligence. What they don’t have is the initiative. And wherever they go, they take that same lack of initiative with them.
Including California.
Before anyone screams, “Racist,” remember: I like the people of Latin America. I chose to buy a home and live among them six months a year. It’s a rather pleasant, stress-free lifestyle. And it is not likely to change.
Down there. Or, up here.
BTTT!
The last three weeks I have traveled about, taking the pulse of the more forgotten areas of central California. I wanted to witness, even if superficially, what is happening to a state that has the highest sales and income taxes, the most lavish entitlements, the near-worst public schools (based on federal test scores), and the largest number of illegal aliens in the nation, along with an overregulated private sector, a stagnant and shrinking manufacturing base, and an elite environmental ethos that restricts commerce and productivity without curbing consumption... My own farmhouse is now in an area of abject poverty and almost no ethnic diversity; the closest elementary school (my alma mater, two miles away) is 94 percent Hispanic and 1 percent white, and well below federal testing norms in math and English.The better to convince the masses of the global warming hoax and the necessity of taking away what little they hath for their own good. Thanks ScottinVA for the topic and thanks neverdem for the ping.
An eye-opening article, especially after having just read the Enemies trilogy by Bracken.
I ask help of the many fine minds here to counter the crux of a comment posted after the VDH article in NRO. I sense that the commenter is wrong due to the influences of power over critical issues (immigration enforcement, federal and state entitlement programs, etc) being centralized more at the federal and state level, which then somewhat dominates politics and so dictates many conditions at the local level. Can someone give specific points I can use to counter the thrust of the following comment (besides the fact that the commenter is a delusional CA lefty; I get that part):
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gilroymom
12/17/10 11:46
Victor Hansen and many commenters here should realize that the Central Valley is red-state California. What he saw is the result of local republican leadership and conservative policies: lack of social safety net, minimal public services (road maintenance, municipal waste removal, code enforcement — all local services.) Coastal California is the blue-state zone, with higher local taxes and much better public services. Just as there are rich people in the Central Valley, there are poor people in the coastal areas, but the different approach to policy, taxation and public amenities makes a big difference in the quality of life for all.
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PS: I’m new here. How can I find “thread # 9,573”? Any advice appreciated...