This is a very accurate article with a huge enigma. The author seems to be against progressivism, yet he is a a transplanted NYC democrat who voted for Brown in the last election. I sense a huge dose of standard liberal hipocracy here. I wonder if he isn’t speaking out both sides of his mouth.
His article is dead on, but the REASON California is like Greece is because of a flood of east coast liberals bringing their socialist utopian dreams to California. 50 years of California colonization by guys like the author are the very reason California is so screwed. He may be against Cap and Trade and some of the more extreme green policies, but he is likely to be quite liberal with everything from save the whales to open borders to EBT for all and college subsidies for illegals.
The author sounds like a pretty good stereotype of the voter base that has destroyed California. He sounds pretty stupid, too.
I mean, how can you know Jerry Brown personally for 35 years, which takes you back to the end of his first terms as governor, and then vote for him for governor in the last election and really think he isn’t still the same old Governor Moonbeam?
Truly, liberals are severely mentally deficient and east coast liberals have been the undoing of the once great state of California, now a one party Democrat oligarchy.
My bet is the author is doing pretty well for himself and doesn’t want to ‘rock the boat’.
To hell with the rest of the state/country.
IOW,he’d fit in at an anti-Walker rally in WI.