Because his personal situation is awful because the raisin farm he owns (and other farmer friends) are besieged by thievery by Mexicans. Equipment thefts and copper wiring thefts etc. Have you read his accounts over at Pajamas Media? Also he sees his farming area descending into 3rd world status with lots of mobile home shanty towns. He likes to bicycle around and see things. The farm towns are sliding downward too. He has lived through the best of California's years and now he sees the worst when farmers and their workers are deprived of irrigation water over a Delta smelt. He sees liberal insanity and hypocrisy a lot closer than others
The vandalized valley
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/286354/vandalized-valley-victor-davis-hanson#
The description reminds me of something I read once about the Gallo-Roman senatorial magnate Sidonius Apollinaris, who sat in his classical clothing in his classical villa farm-house (which would come soon to be called a "mansus" in the common people's tongue), writing letters in elegant Latin to his colleagues in the cities, advising them to come away out into the countryside. Then he would look up from his writing across his fields that stretched to the horizon, and see little knots of Burgundians walking across his seizings, thick gobs of butter in their hair to frustrate the lice and flies, heading steadily in the general direction of the Pyrenees and Nearer Spain. That same sort of end-of-an-era feel ....
Lyndon Johnson did this. He did it out of malice, and he did it on purpose. But I know how to pay the old bastard back. The one thing he feared was the lack of a legacy, and being consigned to obscurity. Well, all those LBJ monuments, and that fancy gravesite? Guess what, Lynt'n .... you're taking a little trip. And by God, I'd do it.
In the new pay-as-you-go state, shrouded in politically correct bureaucratese, Californians have developed a keen sense of cynicism. The scores of Highway Patrol cars that now dot our freeways are looking for the middle class — the minor, income-producing infractions of the generally law-abiding — inasmuch as in comparison the felonies of the underclass are lose–lose propositions.
This cynicism and instrumental targeting of law-abiding people and shunning of the habitually criminal recidivists and scofflaws is created by the financial pressures of socialism. An unplanned, unforeseen liability of "communism with a human face".
The cynicism and pragmatism of liberal socialism is an ouroboros that consumes itself -- indeed the whole society and state -- in an attempt to carry out its infinite powers and responsibilities.