Post by Don on Jan 5, 2017 7:11:29 GMT -5
I think it's robeiae who's pointed out the feudalism of California before. Here's a somewhat in-depth look.
Coastal elites set rules for others, exempt themselves, and tolerate rampant lawlessness from illegal aliens.
So is California the leading edge of modern society, as I've heard all my life, or the canary in the coal mine, a contrarian position I've held just about as long? What say you?
Coastal elites set rules for others, exempt themselves, and tolerate rampant lawlessness from illegal aliens.
The American progressive elite relies on its influence, education, money, and cultural privilege to exempt itself from the bad schools, unassimilated immigrant communities, dangerous neighborhoods, crime waves, and general impoverishment that are so often the logical consequences of its own policies — consequences for others, that is. 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.
Nowhere is this paradox truer than in California, a dysfunctional natural paradise in which a group of coastal and governing magnificoes virtue-signal from the world’s most exclusive and beautiful enclaves. The state is currently experiencing another perfect storm of increased crime, decreased incarceration, still ongoing illegal immigration, and record poverty. All that is energized by a strapped middle class that is still fleeing the overregulated and overtaxed state, while the arriving poor take their places in hopes of generous entitlements, jobs servicing the elite, and government employment.
Nowhere is this paradox truer than in California, a dysfunctional natural paradise in which a group of coastal and governing magnificoes virtue-signal from the world’s most exclusive and beautiful enclaves. The state is currently experiencing another perfect storm of increased crime, decreased incarceration, still ongoing illegal immigration, and record poverty. All that is energized by a strapped middle class that is still fleeing the overregulated and overtaxed state, while the arriving poor take their places in hopes of generous entitlements, jobs servicing the elite, and government employment.
So is California the leading edge of modern society, as I've heard all my life, or the canary in the coal mine, a contrarian position I've held just about as long? What say you?
