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Home Front: Politix
Victor Davis Hanson: California Can't Go On Like This (video)
2022-05-09
[ZERO] The following is an abridged version of a talk delivered on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, during the question and answer portion of an OpenTheBooks.com virtual event. Videos, media, and other speeches are available at YouTube/OpenTheBooks.

Victor Davis Hanson, earned his B.A. at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his Ph.D. in classics from Stanford University. He is the author of several books, including A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War and The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won. Dr. Hanson is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of classics emeritus at California State University, Fresno.

QUESTON:

Dr. Hanson, You and I are both native Californians. So looking at California, do you think we've lost the state? Or do you have any strategy advice to reverse this current downward trend set up that we have, and bring some success to us? Just in the state of California.

ANSWER — VICTOR DAVIS HANSON:

California is sort of like a prodigal son. We've all had members of our family that we love, and we grew up with and we thought they were stable, and then they take drugs or they get wayward, they get in trouble, but we don't disown them. Well, we don't move away from them. We try to work with them and hope they can find redemption.

I think that's what we're doing in California.

So, there isn’t one Republican statewide officeholder. Republicans only have 11 of 53 Congressional seats. The rest are Democrats. Both houses of the state legislature have super majorities (Democrats). The ninth federal appellate court is the most liberal in the nation. So, they got what they wanted; the left did.

The Left got what they wanted.

Posted by:Besoeker

#4  There are currently NO GOP folks occupying any statewide office positions in CA. None. Dems have super majorities in both houses of the legislature. This is not going to change. I wish it were otherwise but no. I'm born, raised CA. I've seen all that has gone down. Short of getting nuked, nothing is gonna change in CA, the Dems - with the fealty of the CA GOP, have seen to this. At best, we can hope for a blip, but nothing more. CA is nothing more than the Dem's Potemkin Village. None of it is based in reality.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2022-05-09 17:23  

#3  So, upper middle class and working and middle class Hispanics (that are 40% of the CA population) are undergoing — I'm not even sure they're fully aware of it in the abstract — the most radical political shift in my lifetime.

The current chair of the California Republican Party is an Hispanic woman and one of the candidates for governor is Hispanic.

Some members of our Asian communities are shifting to the GOP as well, especially those who fled communism in places like China, Cambodia and Vietnam. They know what happens when communists take over and they get very emotional when they talk about it.

So I suppose there is hope. It's exactly the kind of shift that Democrats deserve. I just hope it's not too late.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-05-09 12:17  

#2  They came with far fewer skills, and they came in mass over the last 30 years.

Let's see 2022 - 30 = 1992. Wasn't 1992 the year that Bill Clinton won the presidential election? Yeah, it was. He may have been a pervert but he sure knew how to turn California blue. Biden is doing the same thing now to the rest of the country.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-05-09 11:58  

#1  Well, we don't move away from them. We try to work with them and hope they can find redemption.

Well, there sure have been a heck of a lot of them moving to other states. We can only hope they moved because they were fed up with the status quo. Similar movements have occurred in other blue states as well leaving benind high taxes, over-regulaion and corruptocrats.
Posted by: JohnQC   2022-05-09 11:37  

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