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| Review‐The Decline and Fall of California: From Decadence to Destruction |
| 2015-12-10 |
| Historian Victor Davis Hanson chronicles the sad decline of the once great state of California in his book, The Decline and Fall of California: From Decadence to Destruction. Clearly modeled on famous British historian Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Hanson's book makes it clear that the increasingly dystopian California has been the author of its own decline. A half-century of bad policy and failed ideology has reduced the Golden State to a shell of its former glory. Much more at link. It's Breitbart, you know. Haven't read the book but the review jibes with a lot of what I've seen. I can tell you that there are still a lot of days in that narrow coastal enclave that are quite enjoyable even if you have to share the road with liberal bicyclists in their spandex. I've been to flyover country and I know the people there are more reasonable. But the weather and the ocean here make it very difficult for me to contemplate leaving. |
| Posted by:Ebbang Uluque6305 |
| #5 I've a signed copy of "Western way of War". |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-12-10 14:48 |
| #4 Islands of beauty, La Jolla, Malibu, Newport Beach, Pacific Palisades, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, Half Moon Bay, Lake Tahoe, even here in the Sacramento area, Granite Bay and El Dorado Hills, so many are insulated from what has happened, but go to National City, Santa Ana, Boyle Heights, Oakland, most of the Central Valley, and you see the disaster, overwhelming illegal and immigrant demographics, agricultural jobs devastated by the drought and no water catchment infrastructure or dams in decades, water resources diverted to the urban areas, no manufacturing, regressive tax rates, cumbersome regulatory environment for small business, environmental contraints down to individual tree removal permits for selected species, high cost of living and high taxes on everything. AN idiot governor who plans spending massive debt on a silly train that will never be successful, and you see the future of the US. Pure insanity to let progressive/socialists do this through corruption, massive immigration to overwhelm the power of the citizens, schools that literally teach hatred of their own nation....I weep for what was here, and what is coming for the rest of you. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2015-12-10 14:48 |
| #3 The thing is, if you stop and look around the place is still beautiful and full of beautiful people so you don't notice the decline. Assuming you aren't looking for a job and aren't pulling out your hair about the water crisis. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-12-10 12:39 |
| #2 .....liberal bicyclists in their spandex. My F-150 hates them too. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-12-10 05:21 |
| #1 It is a shame to lose such pristine land. It's not worth the morning news cycle to live there, or I would be there myself. |
| Posted by: newc 2015-12-10 00:41 |