CALIFORNIA ‘NOW RESEMBLES A MEDIEVAL SOCIETY’…(What Starts In CA. Moves East!!)
Historian Victor Davis Hanson sees vast feudal poverty and ‘an aristocracy of a few million elites’
By Edward B. Driscoll, Jr.
WND.com
Feb. 20, 2016
California isn’t what it used to be. Just ask historian Victor Davis Hanson. He has spent a lifetime in the Golden State and has watched with dismay as the culture has changed for the worse over the past few decades.
Hanson dubbed it “the weirdest place in the world” in his new e-book, a collection of PJ Media essays titled “The Decline and Fall of California.” And who could argue the point when he calls out absurdities like Tiburcio Vasquez Elementary School – an institution of learning named after a 19th century robber and murderer?
That just scratches the surface of his thesis, though. Hanson demonstrates the sweeping impact of liberal elitism on the state’s culture. “California is both more poorly managed than any time in its past, more divided between rich and poor, more fragmented by opportunistic ethnic identity politics, more impoverished by massive illegal immigration – and never more naturally wealthy.”
Here are some of the key takeaways from the culture section of the book:
The “richerals” rule the roost. Hanson coined that term to describe the rich, cool liberals who can afford to preach progressivism because they don’t have to practice it. Wealth shields them from the effects of the high taxes and regulation they love to impose on others. “Being a richeral apparently means you never have to say you are sorry about the means you used to get your cash, why you mean to keep and expand it, and how you plan to pass it on to your richeral kids,” Hanson said.
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