It’s Still a Mad, Mad California: Coastal elites set rules for others and exempt themselves

National Review ^ | 01/03/2016 | Victor Davis Hanson

[realr]

While CalExit is a heart-warming idea, to see such wacky Liberals leave our Constitutional Republic, we should be against this.

The resources, infrastructure, and geostrategic importance of California is critical to the United States. California “belongs” to us. Not wacky Liberals on the coastal strip.

They should not be allowed to steal the state from the USA. If push came to shove, then, well, they should be shoved out of the state, go somewhere else in the world. Let the rest of California’s population return to a sane governance. We can even toss in nice housing on the coast for all those oppressed citizens in Republican counties who can’t afford the current condos overlooking the Golden Gate.

[Mariner]

California will benefit most from a Trump presidency.

Ironic.

[Mariner]

“Get out.”

As he said, it’s a natural paradise.

[Mariner]

“And I’m curious to hear what Californians think.”

I returned to the state of my birth, CA, 10 years ago. I love this natural paradise and unmatched good weather.

I just hate the interlopers. And I don’t have to live in the rural slums as millions do.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

VDH is at his best, in my opinion, when he writes about the dichotomy between “coastal” and “inland” California, although in truth, it’s not exactly coast vs. inland, so much as it is enclaves of the elites vs. the rest of the state. Life in San Francisco’s Tenderloin or LA’s Skid Row is even more desperate and depraved than the rural Central Valley areas he described, and parts of Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Palm Springs, etc., are inland, but share far more similarities with “La Jolla and Atherton” than they do with “Modesto and Mendota”.

[zeugma]

Another Classic by VDH. He nails the situation completely.

[American in Israel]

Easy solution. Just reverse the decision that nullified the California State Electoral laws. Most of California is red but now all of the “representatives” are in the blue counties.

The rich costal Democrats have reinstated slavery.

[Sam Clements]

The headline shown for this article is only a partial headline. It states “Coastal elites set rules for others and exempt themselves.” Actually, the headline goes onto say “and tolerate lawlessness from illegal aliens”

This last phrase in the headline is probably more important to the quality of life in California than the first phrase. This lawlessness is the “Soft Bigotry” which George W Bush used to talk about. Lawlessness and lack of enforcement is destroying our state. Democrats accept this as a way to obtain favor and votes from illegals and other lawbreaking persons who are of course located far away fro their privilidged elite areas.

[af_vet_1981]

Concur; very well written and sad that we are losing, or have lost, the State of California. Perhaps God will use President Trump to show us mercy and reverse the evil.

[Trentamj]

Vic is never going to get that job on the California Tourist Promotion Board: Just saying.

[bert]

What California really needs is Zorro.

[bert]

or....... a really bad earth quake in either place

[rightwingcrazy]

“Abstract idealism on behalf of the distant is a powerful psychological narcotic that allows caring progressives to dull the guilt they feel about their own privilege and riches.”

They also do it to keep the rabble from smashing down their gates. “Progressivism” transforms a robber baron into a humanitarian, or so’s the plan.

[whinecountry]

On a recent business trip to LA, I drove Sepulveda from LAX up to the Valley. It was a real eye-opener to see so much business signage entirely in Spanish.

[ptsal]

Drain Hetch Hetchy

Cut California Loose

Make Rope from Hemp

[BobL]

Wow. What’s so classy about this guy is the way he’s able to translate political ‘ideals’ (and I use that term loosely) in to the real-life hells they create. He’s there at Ground Zero and letting the world know about it.

[Osage Orange]

I lived in O.C. and Riverside, Co.....

Very glad I left....

V.D.H. is awesome.....

[Organic Panic]

The other side of the Coastal Range does not exist for the coastals. All they know is “That’s where Lupita’s family picks grapes.” They don’t care about regulations because they write them. they don’t care about taxes because they minimize them. They don’t care about immigration because they benefit. They don’t care about irrigation because Whole Foods always has stocked shelves. They don’t care about crime because they have gates. They don’t care about gas prices because their tesla is a plug in. They don’t care about energy policy because the light switch always works. BUT they will go apecrap about some rat in an ag field in Fresno.

“Fresno??? Who cares about Fresno?”

[Riley]

The elite coastal strip appreciates California’s bifurcated two-class reality, at least in the way that the lords of the Middle Ages treasured their era’s fossilized divisions. Manoralism ensured that peasants remained obedient, dependent, and useful serfs; meanwhile, the masters praised their supposedly enlightened feudal system even as they sought exemptions for their sins from the medieval Church. And without a middle class, the masters had no fear that uncouth others would want their own scaled-down versions of castles and moats.

Dead on.

[Clintonfatigued]

California is what Hillary Clinton and her supporters wanted the nation to be like. We dodged a bullet.