John Stossel in the libertarian magazine Reason begins his piece “Biden Wants To ‘Make America California’” with this: “I was surprised to read [in the Los Angeles Times] that the Biden administration’s ‘role model for America’ is…California!” Yes, Stossel is right. Biden wants California for the rest of the country, with all the dysfunction that has caused 10,000 Californios to flee the state each month. The number of escapees has been building to such an extent that had the Census been extended to include 2020-1 figures, California would lose 2 congressmen, maybe 3, rather than just the one.
The San Jose Mercury News reports that leading the way in the state’s population slide are the megalopolises of LA/Riverside and the Bay Area. Interior Central Valley counties have been destinations for some, but the numbers leap-frogging the state’s borders are stupendous. And this is what Biden is emulating?
It seems that crime, litter, graffiti, gangs, drug/homeless/feces landscapes, greenie lunacies, woke schools, high taxes, high prices, welfare largesse, gender nihilism, and energy idiocy are Biden’s ideal. And we should know where he is going since personnel is policy. California alumni in his administration include Kamala Harris (VP), Xavier Becerra (ex-Calif. AG, now HHS Sec.), Janet Yellen (UC Berkeley, an ex-Fed big wheel, now Treasury Sec.), Alejandro Mayorkas (ex-LA Federal DA, now Sec. of Homeland Security), Cecilia Elena Rouse (Del Mar resident, U. of Penn. Dean, now Chair of the CEA), Isabel Casillas Guzman (ex-Newsom flunky, now Dir. of the SBA), Frances H. Arnold (Cal Tech, now co-chair of Council of Advisers on Science and Technology), and I could bore you with more.
The same state that’s driving its residents away is now seeking to torture the rest of us. But where are we to go if the California catastrophe is federalized? The cartoonist Michael Ramirez, as he often does, captures the Biden disaster . . . which is simply a cheap imitation of the California blueprint for a fiasco.
RogerG