Two Californias
By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
December 15, 2010 5:00 PM
https://www.nationalreview.com/2010/12/two-californias-victor-davis-hanson/
I think I know the answer to this paradox. Missing entirely in the above description is the attitude of the host, which by any historical standard can only be termed “indifferent.” California does not care whether one broke the law to arrive here or continues to break it by staying. It asks nothing of the illegal immigrant — no proficiency in English, no acquaintance with American history and values, no proof of income, no record of education or skills. It does provide all the public assistance that it can afford (and more that it borrows for), and apparently waives enforcement of most of California’s burdensome regulations and civic statutes that increasingly have plagued productive citizens to the point of driving them out. 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.
Hundreds of thousands sense all that and vote accordingly with their feet, both into and out of California — and the result is a sort of social, cultural, economic, and political time-bomb, whose ticks are getting louder.
Yeah. I read all that, remember him talking about it.
He recommended assimilation at that point. His daughter married a Mexican guy. The anarcho-tyranny of the Leftist Establishment here is something he talks about as if it’s going away, but says nothing about how to make it go away.
When did VDH advocate say, mass deportation a la Operation Wetback? Or maybe forcing a governor to appeal 187 to the SCOTUS? Didn’t hear him say anything when Kevin De Leon lead the state legislature in repealing 187, a proposition passed by the electorate by a lopsided 60-40 vote.
Sorry. VDH is a squish who’s late to the party. He can properly identify the outrageous contradictions that have now gutted California’s status as an American state, but he has no stomach for the real solution.
When he finally does go there, it will be far too late, as it really is now.