Every day, fresh madness.
That’s what it feels like right now in California as the political monopoly in charge of America’s largest state hurtles further and faster to the left, with utterly disastrous consequences.
The most visible sign, of course, is the chaos on our streets, as the Golden State becomes as famous for dystopian scenes of public squalor as for our magnificent landscapes.
But the homelessness and crime are just the tip of the ultra-progressive iceberg.
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Upward mobility – the foundation of the California Dream – has collapsed as it becomes almost impossible for most people to get on the housing ladder. Driven by insane bureaucracy, extreme environmentalism and the iron grip of labor unions, building a house costs four or five times as much in California as in neighboring states.
Thanks to astronomical housing costs, the state whose leaders love to brag about being “the fourth-largest economy in the world” now has one of the highest poverty rates in America.
According to a recent report from United Ways of California, over a third of California residents are unable to meet basic living costs.
We have the highest tax rate but the lowest literacy rate.
We are 50th out of 50 for business climate.
We lurch from floods to drought and back again thanks to a catastrophic failure to maintain and improve infrastructure.
Families and businesses are forced to electrify everything just as the state’s energy policies make electricity less reliable and more expensive. Meanwhile, California energy resources are left in the ground while imports of fossil fuels quadruple – up from 12% in 2002 to 50% last year.
On and on it goes, on every issue, a devastating combination of governing incompetence and ideological extremism that hurts the poorest and most vulnerable and makes a normal middle-class life untenable.
No wonder so many people and businesses are voting with their…
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