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Progressively Worse
The Claremont Review of Books ^ | 5/24/21 | William Voegeli

Posted on 05/25/2021 10:34:50 AM PDT by PoliticallyShort

The Biden Administration’s shock-and-awe statism—trillions of dollars in additional federal spending for COVID relief, infrastructure, and economic opportunity—is not being devised from scratch. According to the Los Angeles Times, Democrats in the White House and Congress are treating California as both a “de facto policy think tank” and an “inspiration.” Former governor Gray Davis told the paper that Vice President Kamala Harris, the first California Democrat elected to national office, will be “sharing ideas, innovations, and breakthroughs from California that might help solve problems on the national level.”

The more you know about California’s recent governance, however, the less enthused you’ll be about replicating its policy triumphs on a national scale. Dan Walters, a journalist who has covered California government for more than 50 years, wrote in 2020 that the Golden State is beset by a “crisis of competence.” As a result, government agencies’ “chronic inability to provide rapid and efficient service—to simply do their jobs—has created boundless frustration and anger.” His list of particulars is long and depressing: accounting systems that don’t mesh; housing programs that don’t mitigate homelessness; a high-speed rail initiative that the Times, once an enthusiastic supporter, recently called “the project from hell”; schools that don’t teach; a power grid that takes sabbaticals

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; california; democrats; progressivism

1 posted on 05/25/2021 10:34:50 AM PDT by PoliticallyShort
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To: PoliticallyShort

Democrats mantra,”If it ain’t broke...break it1”


2 posted on 05/25/2021 10:41:30 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: PoliticallyShort

They are not interested in solving problems. Never have been. Only in creating new unsolvable problems.


3 posted on 05/25/2021 10:43:08 AM PDT by richardtavor ( )
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To: PoliticallyShort

“ideas, innovations, and breakthroughs from California that might help solve problems on the national level.”

That’s laughable.


4 posted on 05/25/2021 10:47:24 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Trump took down ISIS; Biden took down Dr. Seuss)
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To: Don Corleone

I prefer “If it ain’t broke...we’re not done yet”. And, there could be a couple of different interpretations of “broke” that would fit.


5 posted on 05/25/2021 10:55:04 AM PDT by Little Pig
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To: Rennes Templar

Eight brazilian illegals, half of them on the public dole and/or sending money out of the country, and the environmental tyranny of green weenies. What could possibly go wrong?


6 posted on 05/25/2021 11:07:06 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: PoliticallyShort
“sharing ideas, innovations, and breakthroughs from California that might help solve problems on the national level.”

How's that working out for CA?

7 posted on 05/25/2021 11:12:11 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Well, you know what tyrants always think. They only reason tyranny didn’t produce Utopia in their particular little hellhole is that there are comparatively free areas adjacent. If the level of tyranny is completely equal, they’ll finally succeed.

So in Kali speak, not only would their ‘ideas’ work if exported to the rest of the country, but exporting them would actually cause them finally to work in Kali as well, because there would be nowhere for that success to run away to.

Yeah, I know. But you can’t expect idiots to know they’re idiots.


8 posted on 05/25/2021 11:24:49 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: PoliticallyShort
“sharing ideas, innovations, and breakthroughs from California that might help solve problems on the national level.”

That's the real problem here. These big-govt idiots think that problems are solved by growing govt. Big govt never solves ANY problems, they just make them worse.

9 posted on 05/25/2021 11:48:07 AM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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Problems the Democrat/Leftists create are not meant to be solved. They are solutions in themselves! The trick is to understand just what the Democrat’s goal is, amidst the decline and waste. It is the reduction of the American economy and particularly its culture, to worse than 3rd World status. That is justice to them.

Stay in California, and suffer. Remove the criminals that destroyed the state, if you can. But don’t grace us with your wonderful utopia, we do not want it.


10 posted on 05/25/2021 11:58:13 AM PDT by Richard Axtell ( NO*)
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To: Bullish
That's the real problem here. These big-govt idiots think that problems are solved by growing govt. Big govt never solves ANY problems, they just make them worse.

It wouldn't matter if they could solve problems, because the price would be individual freedom.

11 posted on 05/25/2021 12:07:44 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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“…schools that don’t teach”

They teach, alright. Godless communism and racism.


12 posted on 05/25/2021 12:25:44 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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To: Richard Axtell

“ we do not want it.”

Don’t worry...the “Great California Diaspora” is bringing the wonders of the Golden State to you.


13 posted on 05/25/2021 12:27:16 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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To: Still Thinking
It wouldn't matter if they could solve problems, because the price would be individual freedom.

The only people who can ever solve ANY problems are 'We the People' and the framers obviously knew that. That's why a representative Republic was created. With checks and balances like free and fair elections, (hah)

These Marxists have hijacked a political party and are trying to destroy the whole society with it.

14 posted on 05/25/2021 6:33:37 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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