Posted on 05/10/2023 1:43:28 AM PDT by spirited irish
Victor Davis Hanson explains how the middle class in California is struggling due to high taxes and heavy regulations that fall heavily on small business owners. As a result, many are leaving the state, causing the middle class to shrink and leaving California with the highest number of homeless people and welfare recipients in the US
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And the sad part is, CA will only get worse.
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So many of our educated class are late to the party. Their anti-trump bias was all they could think about, apparently.
Where did you lift this column for your blog?
democrats (i.e. communists) did it on purpose. They want total control and if they cannot control you, they will murder you one way or another.
This is the way they want it... what other excuse could there be? Theyre proactively chasing investment and high/middle class away from the state. Open border, massive taxes,homelessness, crime and drugs.... and folks think Newsome is a threat to be POTUS? Yikes.
The other problem is those who are fleeing as parasites do will migrate to another state and then move to institute the same failed policies as California continuing their immoral ways. Prime example are the western states, Colorado is a prime example.
“And the sad part is, CA will only get worse.”
Mother Theresa said the path to wisdom is through suffering.
This particular video is from the Hillsdale College series by VDH concerning American citizenship.Here is a direct link:
American Citizenship and Its Decline
At least Sprited Irish has great taste in the material that he duplicates on his blog.
A different VDH ping today, to a course that he teaches at Hillsdale College regarding the value of citizenship. Especially American citizenship.
Thanks to Spirited Irish to bringing it to our attention through his blog.
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American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
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Remember B-1 Bob Dornan? He had his election stolen in 1997. Since nothing was done about that the corruption in California has grown like a cancer. One wonders how long before the Commies there build a wall to keep people from fleeing their socialist paradise.
That’s the way it used to be for sure. It’s a different situation now, IMHO.
Previously when liberals migrated out from their blueness they indeed brought their insane political views with them, no doubt. I witnessed it firsthand in the mid eighties when Boeing/McDonnell Douglas merger started bringing in Californians up to work in the burgeoning aerospace industry.
Now days, the majority of the ones migrating or in actuality fleeing, are different. They are leaving their biases in the place they left for the most part.
The people moving today are fleeing for their lives. The statistics Professor Hanson gives is chilling. My sister-in-law’s entire family ten or eleven of them ranging in age from 75 down to new born great grandchildren, surprised the family when they all moved from Kern County, California to Arkansas and Idaho this year.
They were 4 generation Californians. What’s really interesting is their ancestors migrated to California from Oklahoma and Arkansas during the Dustbowl Era. They were called Okies. Now they are reverse migrating back to their ancestral homeland. One thing for sure, they couldn’t get their driver’s licenses and car tab swapped out quickly enough. The moment they crossed the California border, they said their California identity stayed in California. That’s how people feel today, and that’s a good thing for Arkansas and Idaho, a death knell for California .
I watched this video a day or two ago and found it very educational.
I hope you are correct about today’s migration out of California. Only time will tell.
Kalifornia, like much of the nation, has passed the tipping point. Recovery is improbable. The rate of trashification exceeds the pace of clean-up. The drain to the toilet bowl is clogged and not even big enough if it was not. The crap can’t be gotten rid of fast enough.
Game over man, game over.
A cautionary tale? I think it is already too late for being cautious for the rest of us. The path has been taken and there is no fork in the road ahead.
Once again, he nails it in simple terms. He is one of the greatest thinkers of our time as far as I am concerned.
Hansen describes the problem and the why of it but his failure is to be no better than any one else in providing a blue print for solution. Nobody wants to go there since it would need to purify the twisted interpretation of freedom that got us where we are. He also does not say that we have reached de Tocqueville’s tipping point from which there is no recovery. No, not the one about voting self-directed largess from the treasury, that was not actually de Tocqueville it is claimed, it was from a letter to the editor of the Daily Oklahoman in 1951 according to some. The de Tocqueville tipping point to me is “the tyranny of the majority” [for the sake of power by the elite].
“Remember B-1 Bob Dornan? He had his election stolen in 1997. Since nothing was done about anthat the corruption in California has grown like a cancer. One wonders how long before the Commies there build a wall to keep people from fleeing their socialist paradise.”
I was in a limo/van headed for SFO the next morning, and in the van some liberals were laughing about stealing the vote and beating B-1 Dornan!
Later, zero election boards nor counties/cities would even discuss the possibility of voting theft.
Congressman Dornan is still alive! It’s remarkable that any district in California was once capable of electing him.
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