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.
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