(New York Post)
A New York Post opinion piece argues that California is on a dangerous economic and political trajectory toward socialism. It outlines the policy failures driving that slide and proposes ways to course-correct.
Listen, I live here. I pay taxes here. I watch a guy set up a full kitchen on the sidewalk outside a Whole Foods in Silver Lake and nobody blinks. The NY Post is asking why California could slide into socialism like it’s a future concern. Shockingly, the slide already happened. We’re at the bottom of the hill eating dirt.
The “how to stop it” part of that headline is doing a lot of heavy lifting. That’s like asking how to stop a sunburn after you’ve been floating face-up in the Pacific for six hours. The answer is you don’t. You just buy aloe and accept the consequences of your decisions.
And here’s the thing about California. Everyone who has the money and the means to leave has already left. Austin is basically Los Angeles now except it’s hot in a different way and everyone is slightly more confused about their identity. What’s left here is a very committed group of people who genuinely believe the problem is we haven’t spent enough yet.
Forty billion dollar homeless industrial complex. Still homeless people everywhere. Not even close to working. But alas, the plan is always more of the plan.
I’m not going anywhere though. Somebody has to be here to document it. That’s basically journalism at this point. You’re welcome, California.
