United States Dream of Californication? More like Dream of Neofeudalism.

[Tzeentchean Perspective]

Neo-Feudalism in California | Newgeography.com

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I wanted to find a recent update in the state's loss of residents. Instead I found something far more expansive.

California’s demographics, long driven by newcomers, are changing dramatically. Between 2014 and 2018, notes Cox, net domestic out-migration grew from 46,000 to 156,000. The conventional wisdom among politicians in Sacramento, and their apologists in the press, sees California losing mostly its poor, its elderly, and its less skilled. Yet an analysis of IRS data for 2015–16, the latest available, shows that half of those leaving the state made over $50,000 annually, roughly one in four made over $100,000, and another quarter earned a middle-class paycheck between $50,000 and $100,000.
Perhaps the biggest concern is the loss of young people and families from the state. The largest group leaving—some 28 percent—is between the ages of thirty-five and forty-four, the prime age for raising families. Another third come from those aged twenty-five to thirty-four and forty-five to fifty-four. Sadly, it is among both the young and the more affluent that out-migration is getting stronger.

The most extreme poverty is found in two places: the vast interior regions and areas close to urban cores. Anyone riding along Highway 33 through the Central Valley can see scenes that seem more like rural Mexico than America: abandoned cars, dilapidated houses, and deserted storefronts. Among the nation’s 381 metropolitan areas, notes a recent Pew study, four of the ten with the lowest share of middle-class residents are in California’s heartland: Fresno, Bakersfield, Visalia-Porterville, and El Centro. Three of the ten regions with the highest proportion of poor people were also in the state’s interior, and all have suffered among the largest rises in inequality.
Economist John Husing, whose work focuses on the Inland Empire, a sprawling region of 4.2 million inhabitants just east of Los Angeles, suggests the state’s green policies have placed it “at war” with industries such as home building, energy, agriculture, and manufacturing that have traditionally driven the interior’s economy. These losses are catastrophic in areas where many residents lack a college education, and five inland California counties have among the lowest percentages of educated workers out of all U.S. metropolitan areas. The Inland Empire, with a population nearly as large as metropolitan Boston, suffers the lowest average pay of any of the nation’s fifty largest counties and has among the highest poverty rates of any of the nation’s twenty-five largest metropolitan areas.

When you drive along the I-15 beyond, say, Barstow, like I had to do on my way out of the state, you're confronted by a mostly-desolate wasteland in between pockets of civilization. Grafitti-covered ruins and abandoned rest stops dot the landscape. There's even the skeletal remains of a waterpark! You can also see an abandoned rest stop that still has a "Ron Paul Revolution" sign from 2008. Much like the central valley, the area is being left to rot.

Other progressive policies, such as allowing vast homeless encampments, are now widely seen less as exercises in tolerance and more as ideal breeding grounds for the virus, as well as more deadly contagions such as typhus. Motivated by the virus, there are finally steps being taken, notably in Los Angeles, to force the homeless off the streets and into safer, more sanitary environments. Among these populations, there are even indications of a return of the signature malady of the Middle Ages, bubonic plague, although the mainstream media seeks to blame this, like most ills, on climate change as opposed to failed social policy.

As I predicted...

The Failing Race Card

And here we come to the part I was most waiting for, that triumphant fantasy espoused by hardcore democrats as the end-goal for the entire nation.

All this may make progressives feel better about themselves, but if the state’s leaders were to look at how people of color are actually doing, they would see something that resembled apartheid South Africa or the pre–Civil Rights South. California, as gubernatorial candidate and environmental activist Michael Shellenberger has suggested, is not the “most progressive state” but the “most racist one.”

Ironically, California’s efforts to save the planet have actually done little more than divert greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to other states and countries. Since 2007, when the Golden State’s “landmark” global warming legislation was passed, note Friedman and Hernandez, California has accounted for barely 5 percent of the nation’s GHG reductions, and the state ranks a mediocre fortieth in per capita GHG reduction over the past decade. As Friedman and Hernandez demonstrate, state policies may be increasing total GHG by pushing people and industries to states with less mild climates.

Whoops!

Given that, in 2010, California accounted for less than 1 percent of global GHG emissions, the disproportionately large reductions sought by state activists and bureaucrats would have no discernible effect on global emissions under the terms of the Paris Agreement. “If California ceased to exist in 2030,” Friedman and Hernandez note, “global GHG emissions would be still be 99.54 percent” of where they would be otherwise.

So it's all futile anyway aside from good feelsies stateside. Canada has about the same population as California and I've heard they're on a similarly overblown course. Borrowing from the infamous phrase "it became necessary to destroyer the village in order to save it", I see.

Similarly, in the case of the recent wildfires, Gavin Newsom and his claque in the media blamed changes in the global climate. But it had at least as much to do with green resistance to controlled burns and brush clearance than anything happening on a planetary scale; attempts to impose such fuel controls had been vetoed by Brown and are opposed by the greens and their allies at media outlets like the Los Angeles Times.

The sparring over this shit happens every year because CA officials are apparently okay with ignoring the issues and letting conspiracy theories about fucking laser satellites being used to spread the blaze be validated. Meanwhile one explanation for why the fires get so bad is ignored...

The many links in this article will definitely be useful. It's not enough to "just know" that the state is a mess, these stories are important in proving it.

What California needs today is not some imagined return of Reaganite conservatism—that ship long ago sailed over the horizon—but a policy agenda that, first and foremost, serves the basic interests of state residents by expanding opportunity across both classes and geographies. Those of us concerned about a better future for the next generation may be discouraged, but it is hard to accept that, with all our great resources and culture of innovation, a way cannot be found to restore the state’s once proud reputation as an incubator of aspirations and fulfiller of dreams.

He's right. It's not a matter of the state turning red as much as it is repackaging sane ideas for all parties to agree on.

 

[Cherico]

wow he's deeply underselling how fucked we are.

All of this? This is taking place before a massive wave of buracrats retire and come to collect pesions we cant possibly pay for. Seriously we have 2 years before the baby boomers retire in mass and we will have 3 options.

1. Be bailed out by the federal government (Ideal solution

2. Get on our knees and beg the feds to let us declare bankruptcy (Not ideal solution)

3. Total economic collapse.

This by the way is why were going full steam ahead with the stupid, we are beyond any possible reform and are heading strait off the cliff, so might as well promise the world knowing you will never be able to pay it off.

 

[Hlaalu Agent]

@Cherico Now is your time, start preserving technology and knowledge for when things collapse. Perhaps they will write about you, perhaps. Maybe give you a canticle?

 

[Cherico]

@Cherico Now is your time, start preserving technology and knowledge for when things collapse. Perhaps they will write about you, perhaps. Maybe give you a canticle?

Thank fully most of the rest of the country isn't nearly as stupid as we are.

And after the disaster we might finally learn our lesson and stop doing stupid shit.

 

[Floridaman]

@Cherico Now is your time, start preserving technology and knowledge for when things collapse. Perhaps they will write about you, perhaps. Maybe give you a canticle?

Nah, The fall of California wouldn’t result in the end no more than the fall of Detroit ended the Auto industry.

 

[Hlaalu Agent]

Nah, The fall of California wouldn’t result in the end no more than the fall of Detroit ended the Auto industry.

What about the rampaging horde of simpletons issuing forth out of there?

 

[Cherico]

What about the rampaging horde of simpletons issuing forth out of there?

Remember to bait your traps with avocado toast and you will be just fine.

 

[Floridaman]

What about the rampaging horde of simpletons issuing forth out of there?

If it gets to that point I somehow doubt they would be accepted anywhere else, besides when it collapses most of them won’t be able to afford leaving, much like Detroit.

 

[Hlaalu Agent]

Remember to bait your traps with avocado toast and you will be just fine.

Waste of good avocado... Oh well can always get more and then devour it in a good salad in front of them...or on a meaty burger or taco...

If it gets to that point I somehow doubt they would be accepted anywhere else, besides when it collapses most of them won’t be able to afford leaving, much like Detroit.

You are right, but I am still worried we will be sent back a thousand or so years by howling crowds without the need for a flame deluge to set them off.