Monday, March 31, 2014

Victor Davis Hanson: Why California is Failing: "Fish Instead of People, Ideologies Without Consequence."

Excellent.

Depressing but well stated. 

"There is a great sickness in California, home of the greatest number of American billionaires and poor people, land of the highest taxes and about the worst schools and roads in the nation."

"The illness is a new secular religion far more zealous and intolerant than the pre-Reformation zealotry of the Church. Modern elite liberalism is based on the simple creed that one’s affluence and education, one’s coolness and zip code, should shield him from the consequences of one’s bankrupt thoughts that he inflicts on others. We are a state run by dead souls who square the circle of their own privilege, who seek meaning in rather selfish lives, always at someone else’s expense."

"It is that simple — that pernicious."