Some have often stated to the point of cliché that California presages the social and political future. The claim is abused but has some applicability to the benefit of opposing ends of the ideological spectrum.
In the 60’s to the 80’s it served the interests of conservatives. Reagan was governor, then president, and California became a willing partner in the Sagebrush Rebellion’s challenge to the collectivists in the DC administrative state. Prop 13 heralded a nationwide tax revolt. Today, it’s the left who benefits from the state’s 36 million person heft. They have a super-majority stranglehold on the state.
The place is a veritable political Disneyland for the furthest tip of the “progressive” left wing of the Democratic Party. Among other things, it’s a state with it’s own immigration policy – i.e., open borders. The Constitution be damned. Now with SB 1, California will declare that it’s the Obama presidency forever within the confines of the state’s borders. The Electoral College be damned.
SB 1 cyrogenically freezes in place the regulations of Obama’s people as of January 19, 2017, the day before Trump took the oath. The bill would in effect veto the Trump administration’s deregulation efforts on, and in, every inch of soil in the new PRC, the People’s Republic of California. This sounds to me like secession … till the next election that they win.
The effect on property owners and farmers would make worse an already bad situation. The bill specifically targets changes in endangered species regulation. Protections for a non-native fish – get that, non-native – the Delta Smelt, in the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta, will continue to be draconically enforced to the detriment of west-side Central Valley agriculturalists. The land out there is dry as a bone and fallow. The towns are drying up as water spills out through the Golden Gate. You can read about it here in an op-ed by John Harris, owner of Harris Ranch.
A puff piece from the sponsoring commissar can be found here.
Watch for other blue-dot havens to follow suit. Instead of a Sagebrush Rebellion, it’ll be secessionitis in the chic soirees of Brentwood/Malibu/Hollywood and Greenwich Viilage/Manhattan till a socialist or socialist-lite places his or her hand on the inaugural Bible and begins our slide into national incontinence. They won’t be happy till they get their chance to emasculate the country. And emasculate they will.
An el diablo is blowing out of Sacramento. The thing has long been associated with firestorms. To borrow with a twist the Las Vegas line, what happens in California rarely stays in California.
RogerG