Two blind mice

George Rebane

Celebrating political monopolies.  Leftwing thought leaders, syndicated Thomas Elias and local George Boardman, write with glee how California’s Democrat Party cancer continues to grow.  Having already metastasized the state, it is now starting to pick off the remnant low population rural counties in the northern part, leading with our Nevada County. (Their columns in the 29nov22 Union, not online yet.)

The social and economic devastation is totally invisible to these mavens, as these were to the Stalin celebretorians in Pravda of the 1930s and 1940s.  As with all autocrats, it’s the party über alles, no matter what trail of destruction it leaves behind.  They see nothing wrong with the exodus of the skilled and productive.  The exodus of small businesses for greener pastures.  The ever-increasing taxes and regulations to conduct and corral our lives.  Nothing wrong with the state’s top 1% earners paying nearly 50% of the state’s general fund revenues.  And many of these 150,000 out of 40M are now leaving or have already left, thereby causing huge ($25B) and promising bigger state budget deficits.

But what the Left’s cricket chorus hides is how decades of one-party control has made California the nation’s posterchild of every government folly and foible that places us in the bottom of the federalized barrel of states along almost every metric that is important to the country’s makers.  However, the country’s takers see an entirely different California.  They welcome its teeming cities filled with the homeless, littered with needles and feces, and rife with crime rates that are anything but equitable.

To be fair Thomas Elias does make a couple of good points about the state’s Republicans basically sitting on their collective butts celebrating a micro gain here and there, but none of it amounts to a hill of beans in being a relevant opposition party in the state.  Elias doesn’t have much advice for that achievement save give up on some core Republican planks like opposing abortion.

Bottom line though is that neither columnist gives a hint of lament about the detritus all around us as evidence of what the Democrat Party has accomplished during its tenure in Sacramento.  

Comments

[Gregory]

George, I've not yet seen the Elias column, and paraphrasing Dr. McCoy, Boardman's words are unimportant and I do not hear them.

That said, I think there are times to act and times to strike. The Democratic Party in California has a robust money conveyor from folks with money to folks desperate to spend it... property taxes to Party coffers through public employee labor unions being number one. That's a tough stream to swim against.

I blame Governor Moonbeam v.1 for that.

Delusional "Progressives" have granted themselves the top rung on intelligence and knowledge, and until the Global Warming Crisis comes to an end, they'll have that imaginary top rung. I'm ready for when it comes crashing down. So should be the GOP.

[Bill Tozer]

I am glad Boardman clarified his comment (later in his column) that Nevada County is the only Blue Spot in the Eastern State. Mono County is Blue as well as Alpine Co.

The Climate Crisis will never end....at least in CA. Noticed that one of those on Steve's payroll is a Mono County supervisor, probably another graduate from Pelosi's Leadership Conference for woomen, just like Heidi Hall. The gravey train will keep on rolling in CA for sure.

[Scott O]

Here's a look at what the Dems have accomplished after decades of rule in the once Golden State:
https://www.ocregister.com/2022/11/28/fentanyls-scourge-plainly-visible-on-streets-of-los-angeles-2/?itm_source=parsely-api
I'm sure just a few billion more and it will all be good.
Keep up the happy talk, Dems - we all see the results of what you've done.
As long as it isn't in front of your house, you lefties don't give a damn.

[Don Bessee]

She has that right and its why the left heads are exploding about twitter getting back into balance. It does sound like this is exactly the goal of the PC police -

In a BBC lecture on freedom of speech, the writer said young people were growing up "afraid to ask questions for fear of asking the wrong questions".

Such a climate could lead to "the death of curiosity, the death of learning and the death of creativity", the award-winning Nigerian author warned.

"No human endeavour requires freedom as much as creativity does," she added.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63797087

;-)

[Don Bessee]

The groomers and soros da's just love them some pedophiles who are not reformable -

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/11/29/california-releases-thousands-convicted-pedophiles-within-year-conviction/

Can we say finally but you can name the pointy headed legal folks who will fight in spite of the innocent victims -

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/11/29/mayor-eric-adams-involuntarily-hospitalize-mentally-ill-new-yorkers/

;-)

[Scott O]

I realize the article is about NY but CA went through this in the 60s. And why Reagan closed the CA mental health hospitals. Judges ruled that the state couldn't hold people involuntarily unless they posed a danger to the public. So the hospitals became expensive lounges for the mentally ill to come and go as they liked without having to take meds or receive treatment. Let's see what happens in NY.
https://dnyuz.com/2022/11/29/new-york-city-will-hospitalize-more-mentally-ill-people-involuntarily/
Sending people to the mental hospital for heavy tranqs is a favorite way for the Russian govt to deal with their dissidents.
The need for govt intervention into an addict's life is a two edged sword.
Those in favor might give pause if the govt agents showed up at their door to haul them away for "treatment".

[Gregory]

Toes 818p

"The Climate Crisis will never end....at least in CA."

No, combine a definitive cooling with a state done gone bankrupt and late night comix using Warmistas for the punchlines, it will be over.