Victor Davis Hanson, a California resident BTW, says just that in his column today and explains:
"California has also schooled the nation on mutually exclusively goals. Its lax immigration policies have made for a rapidly expanding population, and yet it expects a sophisticated infrastructure that ensures plentiful, clean water -- and dreams of a pristine, green, 19th century paradise in a depopulated state."
He's right. Logic and planning are so passe when you can dream! And so we have the paradox of:
"... the highest basket of income, sales and gasoline taxes in the nation -- even as infrastructure, government services and schools erode. It established the national precedent of opposing new infrastructure projects and then enjoying them once the planners and builders who were criticized finished them. California equated a Silicon Valley smartphone in the hand with knowledge in the head -- and the nation at large soon produced the most electronically wired and least knowledgeable generation in memory."
Come, let us all unreason together! Let us slip together the surly tethers of reality and float together into the glorious future. What? You can't get here because you're stuck in traffic? And welfare recipients are rioting? Sorry you're sick, have you used your health care allotment yet? It's glorious, glorious I say!
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