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June 25, 2024

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

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American Exceptionalism was nowhere more evident than in California as it grew into the natural resources, manufacturing, and technology behemoth that powered the country. You name it, and California had it in abundance. Add the incredible physical beauty of its beaches, mountains, deserts, and rivers, and its moniker "The Golden State" was well deserved.

So what happened? Is Chaucer correct?

But at the laste, as every thing hath ende,
She took hir leve, and nedes wolde wende.

How California's Paradise Become Our Purgatory
California has become a test case of the suicide of the West. Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed with such a bountiful human inheritance, self-destructed so rapidly.

How and why did California so utterly consume its unmatched natural and ancestral inheritance and end up as a warning to Western civilization of what might be in store for anyone who followed its nihilism?


That's exactly correct..."nihilism," and it is rooted in the cultural miasma emanating from the 1960s rebellion against...what? Tradition? Excellence? Religion's rational control of behavior? Allowing adults to tell children what to do?

Destroying all of those things played perfectly with the progressive desire to rebuild society...after it tears it down. And the idiocy and destructiveness of the 1960s radicals has subsumed the Democrat party, or perhaps that movement exposed the Democrat party's traditional leaning!

Regardless, it found fertile soil in California, and after two generations it has overwhelmed California and turned it into a cesspit of rabid progressive ideas and policies. The fever dreams of the 1960s radicals are now public policy in California, and nothing is too insane!

Sadly it has also embraced the other less savory aspects of progressivism (as if there are any savory aspects!). Racial division, class division, religious division...all are now front and center in what used to be a state whose horizons were limited only by one's imagination. Now it is a sclerotic, bureaucratic nightmare that has rigid social structures promoted and maintained by its government! It is dirty, dangerous, overflowing with the contents of central American prisons, and wholly unfit for traditional American families.

It exports its nonsense to its neighbors, and its federal legislators are infected with the lunacy of the state government. Observe any of the nuttier bills put forth in the United States Congress and the odds are that it comes from or is supported by the California Congressional delegation!

Is it time to force California to grow up? Yes, but it needs to fail before anything substantive can be done. Luckily, the people of California are casually going about their business as if nothing is awry, and that will hasten its downfall. The good people are leaving, and soon California will be left without a middle class...just the robber barons in their gated estates and an ocean of workers... many illegal... supporting them.

Hopefully the rest of the country won't have to pay for the bail out, but I'm not holding my breath!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]


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