Congratulations, Maxine Waters, and also Dianne Feinstein.
And of course, my favorite governor, Gavin Newsome.
This state is a Democrat supermajority and has finally reached the apex of success in the government.
We are now considered a third world state by basic community standards.
Now, there's this article here by the National Review, which of course some might say is biased, but if you look at the criteria here, this author is not trashing California, actually.
He's just basically breaking down an alarming problem, which is the fact that though this state is large and though it is wealthy, it is also very poor at the same time.
Additionally, I want to say that there's a large movement in the state called Colexit, which is trying to get California to secede from the union.
And of course, their grounds are that California being so populous and having such a large economy is basically a country.
And what's funny is, is that even if California is a kind of like a country, which I agree with, just because of the sheer mass of what it is, the reality is that California has some serious problems and we're going to break them down.
And the categories that put California into a third world state are the resurgence of medieval diseases, as you see right here, the proliferation of gangs, severe corruption, as only four families run pretty much all bonds, contracts, and the government.
Just in case you want to know, our governor, Gavin Newsom, is Nancy Pelosi's nephew.
Hmm, interesting.
We also have a crumbling infrastructure and out-of-touch wealthy elites.
So basically what this author begins to say is that basically this third world symptomologies are predictably corrupt government, unequal or non-existent applicability of the law, two rather than three classes, and the return of medieval diseases.
Third world nations suffer from high taxes and poor social services, pre-modern infrastructure and utilities, poor transportation, tribalism, gangs, and a lack of security.
It's kind of funny because while this should be sad and I should be looking at this going, oh, how like horrible is this?
This really sounds a lot like California and we're going to look at this.
Just so you know, he says that this proliferation and a rise of calling it a third world state isn't necessarily a slam.
It's just the truth.
And we're going to look at this.
So number one, here's the first symptom.
We have the California manor.
So by many criteria, 21st century California is both the poorest and the richest state in the union.
Almost a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line.
Another fifth is categorized as near the poverty level.
That's not true during the later 20th century.
We go down to say that about 22% of the nation's total homeless population reside in the state whose economy is the largest in the U.S.
So a lot of times what people do in California is they tend to point to our large economy as a determinant of the fact that we are successful and that other states in the Union simply should not intervene and comment on the way that we run our state.
However, the problem is, is it's kind of like somebody skipping leg day.
It's like, well, my arms are big and my chest is big, so you can't comment on my legs being super small.
Yeah, I'm talking to you, Kyle.
The reality is, is that California, while definitely excelling, and we have to give it credit, has this growing impoverished class.
We have the highest poverty rate in the entire union, and we can't ignore that.
And I love how we just continue to see that the rich are getting richer in a largely progressive and liberal state.
I don't know why we're not caring more about the fact that the poorer class is growing and we aren't doing anything about it.
Of course, that's at the same time that we are opening our borders on the South, removing National Guard, and allowing increased illegal immigration at our southern border.
So the middle class is shrinking because of massive regulation, high taxation, green zoning, and accompanying high house prices.
Additionally, the infrastructure is for the unwoke, as this author puts it.
California's transportation system, to be honest, remains in near ruins, despite the highest gas taxes, which actually are raising this year.
And we actually voted on a gas tax.
And they made that California does the tricky laws where they say like, if you vote no on the gas tax, you're voting yes.
So actually a lot of people that I know who didn't read the bill very well said, I voted no on the gas tax.
I said, would you like to vote on the gas tax?
And it said no.
But no actually meant yes.
And that's how California passes a lot of tricky legislation is they get people who aren't for it to vote for it accidentally.
So basically, you know, the 99, the I-5, not the 101, after 70 years of use, are yet completed with six lanes, resulting in dangerous bottlenecks and wrecks.
We have some of the worst traffic in the country.
And we also have a high-speed rail that was canceled after billions were already spent.
Maybe it was millions, but close.
And the federal government actually sued to get the money back.
Additionally, crime for the last three years in California has increased despite having some of the strictest gun regulation in the union.
And actually, we have very severe and large police forces.
It's an epidemic in local jails.
San Francisco has the highest property crime rate per capita of any major city.
The California prison system is a mess in sanctuary cities ensure that illegal aliens charged with crimes will not be deported.
Yet we are a sanctuary state.
So what this does is essentially decriminalizes being an illegal.
Now, despite what people think, well, I already, I have friends who are illegal in California.
If you don't have friends who are illegal in California, that's probably like saying you don't have gay friends.
It's not that you don't have gay friends.
It's just your gay friends haven't told you they're gay.
Or it's like liberals saying they don't have conservative friends.
It's not that you don't have conservative friends.
They're just afraid of getting blacklisted from their job for simply saying they support the president.
Anyways, California is absolutely tearing and teetering on a severe crime problem.
Just to put it into perspective, I'm 26 years old and I've had my car broken into three times since living in the state.
I've had my house broken into twice, once while I was home.
And that's not living in very ghetto areas.
That's just growing up in Southern California.
But 27% of Californians were not born in the United States.
That doesn't really matter per se because we have a large Asian immigration, legal Asian immigration.
Asians are doing pretty well for themselves in the country.
But our dreams, your nightmares.
So basically, as it goes down even more, is that we have this California is punishing the upper middle class while panning the rich and romanticizing the poor.
Then the legislator is now considering a punitive new inheritance tax.
I don't want to get into too much of this article, but I do want to read the conclusion here.
Of course, we talked about there's still gangs and a lot of other topics that we're not going to have time to talk about, but I encourage you to read the whole article.
But what caused this lunacy?
Apparently, a polarity of importing massive poverty from the south of the border while panoring to those who control unexpected wealth in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, which is where I live, the tourism industry, and the marquee universities, massive green regulations, boutique zoning, soaring taxes, increasing crime, identity politics, and tribalism, and radical one-party progressive government were force multipliers.
It is common to blame California Republicans for their demise, though they have much to account for.
But in some sense, the state simply deported conservative voters and imported their left-wing replacements.
In a reductionist sense, perhaps if the former governor Jerry Brown knew that he would one day retire to Delano and drive the 99 daily rather than to green, than to Grass Valley with several state pensions in his bank account, or if Dianne Feinstein dwelled in East Palo, Alto, or Redwood City residents, rather than in Pacific Heights, or if all the Pelosi grandchildren had to attend public schools, then the architects of the 21st century California might have had to live with the consequences of their own dreams and been less eager to inflict their nightmares on the other 40 million Americans.
Yes, or Californians, Californians are suffering, and I have to say this is true, including the fact that just this year, we are expanding Medicaid and free healthcare to illegal aliens and possibly reintroducing the mandatory health care mandate, which punishes young millennials, as our governor said, that we should increase the mandate for citizens to pay for non-citizens.
Therefore, I'm going to be increasing the taxes of the state so that people like me who don't and can't afford health care because of the job that I'm currently building and the career that I'm making, I'm going to still be able to pay for people who So they have healthcare, which is where California is.
I'm Elijah Schaefer signing out.
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