California's economic, academic, media and political institutions still contain the concept of the inevitable supremacy of the state. “The future depends on us, and we will seize this moment,” Governor Gavin Newsom said at his first inauguration. [emphasis, links added]
Others think California deserves the country, a topic that relates to Trump’s presidency, as the New York Times column states: “The shared values of our increasingly tolerant and diverse societies.”
Critics say this vision is different from the facts on the ground. Rather than becoming a model of new “progressive capitalism” and a model of social justice, California has the highest number of billionaires and the highest cost-adjusted poverty rate.
It has the third largest gap after Washington, D.C. and Louisiana, between middle-income earners in any state.
Almost one in five Californians (many work) live in poverty (using the adjusted poverty rate for cost-of-living); the California Institute of Public Policy (PPIC) estimates that nearly one in five live — a total of about 15 million people.
“California” is a model that is no longer available.
To be sure, California has a huge GDP, mainly composed of the stock value and rhythm of stock value of a few large tech companies.
It retains its inertia from its glorious days, especially technology and entertainment venues, but that advantage is evaporating as tech companies flee the state and Hollywood producers filming around the world.
Still, California has the second highest unemployment rate, while jobs lag, especially compared to its neighbors and chief competitors, especially Texas, Arizona and Nevada.
Signs of failure are obvious on the streets. About half of the country's homeless population lives in Golden State, and many are concentrated in tent cities that are plagued by disease and crime in Los Angeles or San Francisco.
Now, almost one-third of state residents (only one-quarter of young voters) now think California is a good place to realize the American dream.
More and more California is the place where dreams die. […snip…]
Pell-Mer Becomes Climateism
Today’s California progressivism now contains many reasons – undocumented immigration, trans children, compensation for slavery – but in recent years, nothing has influenced the state’s contemporary politics more than what the 2018 commitment to the news agency called “climate leadership”.
Newsom, in embracing the catastrophic nature of defining climate change as an existing threat to life on Earth, left behind the old concept of progressiveness that focuses on improving people's lives by embracing inherently uncertain computer models to predict dangerous inherently uncertain computer models.
This allows the legislature to view national climate policies in another way, namely intentionally increasing poverty and work costs and transfer billions of dollars to the rich…
In California, experts from climate catastrophic skeptic Bjorn Lomborg called it a “climate industrial complex”, providing justification for the expensive, social regression task based on shared models. The state calls for a reduction in greenhouse gases, but implements it in the hands of state agencies closely aligned with the Green Hall.
This allows the Legislature to view national climate policies in another way wisely increase poverty and work costs and transfer billions of dollars to the rich In a ruthless pursuit of unilaterally modeled carbon emission targets, even advocates acknowledge that it is impossible to “solve” the global climate.
Indeed, in 2023, the California Air Resources Commission belatedly revealed Current state climate policies will disproportionately harm families with incomes less than $100,000 a year while adding households above this threshold.
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