“Californians pay the most income tax, gas tax, and sales tax, yet suffer from electricity blackouts and abysmal services.”
- For roughly 100 years, California was America’s synecdoche: the part of the country that best represented its whole.
- Perhaps unsurprisingly, given these trends, California’s population stopped expanding in 2014 and has slightly declined since, resulting in the loss of a congressional seat after the 2020 Census.
- For post–Cold War progressives to put their stamp on the world, they could not simply modify the glittering California civilization that their predecessors had created.
- Yet nobody is talking about the need to centralize shelter, as well as psychiatric and addiction care, at the state level, in order to get the state’s unsheltered homeless indoors and, one hopes, rehabilitated.
- Nihilism could, taken as a spur to action, serve as a kind of death meditation: an awareness that our time on earth is finite and that we should make the most of it.
- California presages the country’s demographic future, and its leaders should forge a pan-racial alliance that accounts for past injustices without creating new ones.
https://www.city-journal.org/california-americas-shadow-self
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