\u201cNo state wears its multicultural veneer more ostentatiously than California,\u201d writes Joel Kotkin, a longtime observer of social trends in the Golden State. In the state\u2019s decades-long effort to shake free of bourgeois unifying concepts like a common culture, language, shared values, and a rule of law that applies to everyone equally, California has turned itself into a modern dystopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course the biggest bugaboo for California politicians is immigration law. No state has worked harder to thwart the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws, shield immigration law violators<\/a> from federal authorities, or lavish benefits on illegal aliens. Even the state\u2019s looming $54 billion budget shortfall<\/a> has not seemed to inhibit California from doing still more for illegal aliens<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the exception of its fine\nweather, California is at the bottom of the heap when it comes to just about\nevery measurable quality of life indicator. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The list of policies accelerating\nCalifornia\u2019s race to the bottom goes on and on. But for all its emphasis on\n\u201cwelcoming,\u201d \u201cinclusion,\u201d \u201ctolerance\u201d and every other woke buzzword and policy,\nthe objects of California\u2019s affection just want to get the hell out. And it is\nno surprise why. While catering to illegal aliens, California\u2019s most\ndisadvantaged minorities, Latinos and blacks, are even more disadvantaged than\ntheir racial and ethnic counterparts in the rest of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nationally, 21 percent of Latinos live below the poverty line. In California one-third do. Likewise 28 percent of black Californians meet the official definition of poor, compared with 22 percent of blacks living outside California. All the supposed love being shown to these groups is unrequited<\/a>. Some 58 percent of black Californians wish they lived elsewhere, as do 45 percent of Asians and Latinos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The policies that have California\nheaded in a downward spiral were never about doing what is best for immigrants\nand minorities. It has always been about self-righteous elitists (mostly white\nfolks) and political revolutionaries using immigrants and minorities to wage\ntheir revolt against a bourgeois capitalist system that they detest and want to\noverturn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cNo state wears its multicultural veneer more ostentatiously than California,\u201d writes Joel Kotkin, a longtime observer of social trends in the Golden State. In the state\u2019s decades-long effort to shake free of bourgeois unifying concepts like a common culture, language, shared values, and a rule of law that applies to everyone equally, California has turned<\/p>\n