Posted on 10/31/2019 1:57:04 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Californians know that having tens of thousands of homeless in their major cities is untenable. In some places, municipal sidewalks have become open sewers of garbage, used needles, rodents and infectious diseases. Yet no one dares question progressive orthodoxy by enforcing drug and vagrancy laws, moving the homeless out of cities to suburban or rural facilities, or increasing the number of mental hospitals.
Gas prices of $4 to $5 a gallon — the result of high taxes, hyper-regulation and green mandates — add insult to the injury of stalled commuters. Gas tax increases ostensibly intended to fund freeway expansion and repair continue to be diverted to the state’s failing high-speed rail project.
Residents shrug that the state’s public schools are among weakest in the nation, often ranking in the bottom quadrant in standardized test scores. Elites publicly oppose charter schools but often put their own kids in private academies.
Californians know that to venture into a typical municipal emergency room is to descend into a modern Dante’s Inferno. Medical facilities are overcrowded.
No one would dare to connect the crumbling infrastructure, poor schools and failing public health care with the non-enforcement of immigration laws.
Millions of fed-up middle-class taxpayers have fled the state. About one-third of the nation’s welfare recipients live in California.
California is now a one-party state. Democrats have supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature.
Our resolute ancestors took a century to turn a wilderness into California. Our irresolute generation in just a decade or two has been turning California into a wilderness.
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The one difference is that Austin does have, for now, some ADULT SUPERVISION, which is not true of California cities.
When Austin goes too far left, such as trying to drive out Uber/Lyft or registering guns, then the state steps in and says, “sorry, no dice”. Right now the state is trying to deal with Austin’s self-manufactured ‘homeless crisis’. It’s a new area for the state to go into, so it’s taking a while...but the state certainly knows what’s up, since Austin is also the state capital.
And the above is good and fine as long as Texas as a whole remains Republican. Should that change, things here will get ugly, very ugly, and it will happen very fast.
They have committed numerous "unforced errors" as it is called in the sports world.
And it will burn to the ground because they are totally, utterly incapable of admitting that they are WRONG about anything.
The real danger is that so goes California, so goes the nation.
That period of Media ascendancy is ending.
Yep. Play a Stupid game, win Stupid prizes.
It’s astonishing that this is happening in America. It sounds more like Venezuela. And people are not rioting in the state capital.
If this were happening in Atlas Shrugged, the electric company would just walk away entirely, after shutting the power off everywhere, and the only lights would be from the fires. (”Brother, you asked for it!”)
“good and fine as long as Texas as a whole remains Republican”
Rep/Dem presidential candidate
1988 55/43
1992 40/37
1996 48/43
2000 59/37
2004 61/38
2008 55/43
2012 57/41
2016 52/43
Republican won by 12, 3, 5, 12, 23, 12, 16, 9. Toss out the high and low, and the average is around 12, which is uncomfortable.
And then, demographics...
(Nevertheless, we’d all rather be in Texas than in CA.)
Sooner or later the rest of us are going to have to pay for their idiocy. It will only take one idiot democrap president
Liberals took a perfectly good state, and destroyed it.
Austin, TX is fast becoming the second SF with the mayor allowing them to camp out wherever they wish.
LIBs are the Reverse Midas...Everything they touch turns to feces. They are malignancies on civil society everywhere.
Thanks for the numbers, very interesting. One thing here in Texas about Hispanics is that they often vote Republican 40% (sometimes a bit more), assuming exit polling is accurate. By voting that strongly Republican, it will take decades for them to flip the outcomes.
As to 2016, don’t forget the Cruz/Trump dust-up - that left some bad blood towards both of them, so the 9 points probably would have been closer to the 12 point average, had Cruz simply supported Trump (and that shouldn’t have been very difficult for the ‘Constitutional Conservative’ to figure out).
So, discounting 2016, it’s tough to say there’s really a Democrat trend. Hell, we nearly voted in favor of Bill Clinton - TWICE! And back then, the Hispanic vote was a much lower percentage than now.
The key, as I’ve noted on my home page, is that Republicans consolidate the white vote...if they can do that, it gets very, very, hard for Democrats to win anything! That’s why the Dems cry RACISM and WHITE NATIONALISM the moment any white candidate starts going in that direction. Trump didn’t care, since he’s called everything, anyway, and then we saw the results of that strategy in PA, MI, WI, and nearly MN and NH too.
California is not happening in Atlas Shrugged. Atlas Shrugged is happening in California.
Over-regulation and wishful thinking has already destroyed the electric utility here. Since the government didn't overtly take over the utility, they will now claim that capitalism was the problem.
The next step will be to appoint political managers to operate the utility. There will be a need for tax and rate hikes to pay for the improvements. Many of these improvements will be aimed at increasing "fairness". I already pay, I think, about three or four times as much as some others in the state per kilowatt-hour. That ratio will no doubt increase.
Inevitably, the government managers will fail to deliver electricity to the customers, their various projects will run out of money, and new limitations on the customers will have to be instituted. That will involve rotating outages (which have already been tried), power meters that limit the power flow to each customer, and government subsidies for the favored few who deserve power that they cannot afford. I doubt that I will be among them.
Despite all the "improvements" described above, there will be widespread unexpected outages and uncontrolled side-effects such as more fires, chemical contamination, and power plant accidents. I don't see this ending any better than Atlas Shrugged ended.
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