“The problem with California is that it’s full of CALIFORNIANS!”
Posted on 12/15/2021 10:13:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” Victor Hugo told the tale of Esmerelda, a gypsy dancer falsely accused of attempted murder, set to be hanged by an unjust state. Quasimodo, the titular hunchback, swings down from the cathedral of Notre Dame and saves her, carrying her off while crying “Sanctuary!” In fact, throughout European history, churches provided places of safe haven for accused criminals; the claim of “sanctuary” is made to this day by people seeking refuge from the law.
It's strange, however, to see the language of sanctuary adopted to protect precisely the sort of activity abhorred by anyone of religious bent: abortion. The secular sacrament of abortion has become so sacred, however, that the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, recently announced his intent to make his state the first abortion sanctuary in the nation. “We’ll be a sanctuary,” Newsom announced. “We are looking at ways to support that inevitability and looking at ways to expand our protections.”
The state of California, according to Newsom’s Democratic legislative allies, could provide travel expenses including gas, lodging, transportation and child care for those seeking to kill their unborn children. Already, some 15% of America’s abortions occur in California, according to the Guttmacher Institute. That number would skyrocket if the state began subsidizing abortions across the land.
None of this is particularly surprising. It is telling, however, that as California sinks into the mire, it embraces ever more radical social policy. This is a state that currently houses — no pun intended — some 162,000 homeless people, a number that increased approximately 24% from 2018 to 2020. About a quarter of all homeless people in the United States currently reside in California.
Meanwhile, crime in California has become endemic, with smash-and-grabs roiling major cities and even wealthy residents murdered in their homes.
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And California’s economy trails the nation’s, too. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, California is tied for the worst unemployment rate in the nation, at 7.3%. And while California is currently experiencing a seven-day rolling average of just 67 COVID-19 deaths — compared with 550 at the height of the pandemic — Newsom recently reimposed another monthlong statewide indoor mask mandate.
So why does California keep embracing ever-more-radical policy?
“So why does California keep embracing ever-more-radical policy?”
Californians.
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In other words, the eponymous hunchback.
A great book, once you've waded through the bloated pages of history that Hugo loved to pour on.
Even the movie version (1939, cinema's Great Year) will give you a wonderful case of the chills.
Per Wikipedia:
The Democratic Party currently holds veto-proof supermajorities in both houses of the California State Legislature.[3] The Assembly consists of 60 Democrats and 19 Republicans, with one independent, while the Senate is composed of 31 Democrats and 9 Republicans, Except for a brief period from 1995 to 1996, the Assembly has been in Democratic hands since the 1970 election. The Senate has been under continuous Democratic control since 1970.
A recipe for disaster.
Because LA and Frisco run California.
One of the main offenders responsible for this just expressed shock at how bad it has become. She bought an 8 figure house on the beach..... in Florida.
Go figure. That says it all!
How low can they go? God is patient, but at some point his patience wears out. Will it be an unprecedented earthquake, title wave, fire, or something else?
The author of this article has seen the movies but never read the book.
No offense to the California Freepers!!!
Yep. The blue cities run and ruin the states.
A sanctuary for abortion?
That’s more evil than even Sodom and Gomorrah, who were deviant perverts but not murderers of innocents.
Get out now, or you might become a pillar of salt….
Yep!
And if HR1 passes the US Senate, our national government will join CA in one-party rule.
Despite what they have done so far, we can hardly imagine how hard these people will come down on patriots. They will purposely grind the middleclass into poverty.
They aren’t even subtle about it anymore, except for the thinly-veiled Orwellian titles they give to a bill such as this. It’s pretty much all out in the open now. The only ones who shouldn’t see it are those who are willfully blind.
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