Progressivism Collapsing California

California collapsing under the weight of progressive utopia implementation. (REUTERS/Stephen Lam)

Martin Sieff, of the Strategic Culture Foundation, provides his analysis of California’s downward spiral. As we suspected, progressivism and leftist policies tend to economically ruin areas that they influence. With this economic deterioration comes deterioration in other areas of society. A look at what is happening in California is a projection of what will happen in the rest of the United States given similar progressive drives.

From the Strategic Culture Foundation:

Yet now, California is in terminal collapse and crisis. Governor Gavin Newsom, farcically promoted by the national Mainstream Media (MSM) as a heroic White Knight in Shining Armor in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring has been exposed even in his own state as a catastrophic bungler and hypocrite who has never had a clue what he was — or more usually was not — doing. As I write, California’s sick and tired citizens are close to providing the 1.5 million signatures necessary to pull Newsom into what would certainly be a chaotic recall election.

California was also ravaged last year by the worst wild fires in its history. The slavish media — told what to think by the mindless Los Angeles Times (once a great newspaper) and even more infantile San Francisco Chronicle — bent over backwards to avoid acknowledging the real causes but they have been exhaustively documented.

Witless romantic Green environmental policies scrapped the centuries old, wise practices of creating firebreaks in forests between clumps of trees that would limit fire outbreaks in hot weather. Far from “protecting the trees” and wildlife, as the kneejerk Greens demanded, the ending of windbreak spaces instead allowed forest fires to blaze on an unprecedented scale and at record speed.

At the same time, multiple millions of people sweated in even luxury suburbs through the rolling heat waves without any air conditioning relief because the state electric grid -another victim of ignorant Green prejudice falsely masquerading as “science” — repeatedly collapsed, unable to generate the necessary reliable requisite power levels at vital times.

Los Angeles, the state’s largest city and arguably the most populous now in the United States, has become a byword for violent crime and especially the stronghold of the enormous, ultraviolent and rapidly growing MS 13 organization, routinely mislabeled as a mere “gang” in media reports. MS 13 has up to 50,000 members worldwide of whom at least 10,000, officially, and probably twice as many according to the private assessments of many police officers are in LA.

Martin Sieff’s reporting specialty is US and global economic issues. The Strategic Culture Foundation has the entire article here.

Category: Society