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It's Still a Mad, Mad California
National Review ^ | 1-3-17 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 01/04/2017 6:35:36 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic

Coastal elites set rules for others, exempt themselves, and tolerate rampant lawlessness from illegal aliens.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: insanity; vdh
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Fascinating article. Read the whole thing, whether you live in CA, visit there, or are thinking about moving there. VDH's observations pretty much mesh with mine, as a native Californian "ex-pat" who only goes back for reunions and to settle estates.
1 posted on 01/04/2017 6:35:36 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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2 posted on 01/04/2017 6:39:22 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Merry Christmas!)
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Just wondering how many more times this Victor Davis
Hanson article is going to be posted.


3 posted on 01/04/2017 6:41:17 PM PST by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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VDH is a gem, his basic story is Calif is really TWO states, a poor coastal interior of little opportunity or enforcement of code/law/standards (cuz it doesn’t pay to even try) vs. a glittering coastal strip of opulence and unrealistic ideology, where people finance measures they’ll never have to live by.

In a nutshell:

Jose in dilapidated Fresno vs. Zuckerberg in his compound in glitsy Palo Alto.

VDH’s images are detailed and depressing.

AND ACCURATE.


4 posted on 01/04/2017 6:42:04 PM PST by gaijin
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Just wondering how many more times this Victor Davis
Hanson article is going to be posted.


5 posted on 01/04/2017 6:42:05 PM PST by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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In better times, with his (then living) daughter:


6 posted on 01/04/2017 6:43:17 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Sivad

When you search for the title it only comes up once. Only this thread.


7 posted on 01/04/2017 6:50:13 PM PST by Pelham (the refusal to Deport is defacto Amnesty)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

CALexit 2018


8 posted on 01/04/2017 7:01:49 PM PST by vooch
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What became of his daughter?


9 posted on 01/04/2017 7:06:13 PM PST by Tawiskaro
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She suddenly died of a disease.


10 posted on 01/04/2017 7:07:08 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Sivad

This is the first time I’d seen this article.

How many more times are you going to make that comment?


11 posted on 01/04/2017 7:13:30 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
I've lived in California since my dad moved here in the early '70s to work for Bechtel. I was around 4 at the time. I grew up in Silicon Valley back when silicon-based hardware technology businesses were actually a thing here. I went to college in southern California and moved back north for the technology jobs - if you're in software, this is the place to be.

But this is not the California I grew up in. It stopped being "Reagan Country" in the '90s, as illegals from Mexico flooded the state and turned it into Liberal Democrat country. I'm just saving my money, watching my over-priced house appreciate in value, until I can take my family and move to a sane state with some tech jobs - probably Texas.
12 posted on 01/04/2017 7:13:51 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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I used the search feature, and nothing came up.


13 posted on 01/04/2017 7:17:29 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: DuncanWaring

It was posted late this morning under a different title.


14 posted on 01/04/2017 7:21:11 PM PST by Don W ( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

100% correct. The California where I cast my first vote for Ronald Reagan died in the mid-90s when Grey Davis was elected. Now there are the coastal elites who hire lawyers to fight the CA coastal commission to keep citizens off their beaches and the rest of us who work for a living.


15 posted on 01/04/2017 7:35:11 PM PST by KingofZion
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We fled SoCal in 2015 for E Tennessee. Best thing we ever did. We took our incomes with us.

The article nails it.


16 posted on 01/04/2017 7:39:56 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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I searched “mad” and found three of these posted.


17 posted on 01/04/2017 7:44:17 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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I read it on here yesterday, same article.


18 posted on 01/04/2017 8:06:50 PM PST by EweFunny
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Devastating, infuriating, compelling.


19 posted on 01/04/2017 8:10:26 PM PST by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Just spent a couple of weeks there visiting friends and family. They are great people. The state has some wonderful assets. There are other nice people there. It made me crazy and uncomfortable.

The boiling pot of frogs analogy comes to mind. They don’t feel the water boiling them all to death. They have been immersed in it. They may get out or they may die in it.

It is small and large. You go to the drug store to get toiletries while you are traveling. You get a prescription and eight other items. No paper bag. No plastic bags. “This is Santa Cruz, we don’t use bags — you need to bring your own.” Bring my own? I live 700 miles away. What do I do, drop all this shit in the parking lot while opening my car door? ASSHOLES.

You find out that a community has bankrupted itself doing some sabotage to someone over no-growth issues or wasted 300 million on pensions for city workers that have moved away. WHAT STUPIDITY.

There are ten million more instances that can be detailed.

Yeah, yeah, I see the pretty beach. Grow up Californians (not you AnotherUnixGeek) you have let the idiots run the farm.


20 posted on 01/04/2017 8:19:56 PM PST by KC Burke (Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
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