Is it a coincidence that the Green New Deal is all the rage as 43 states have legalized the relocation of dime bags of pot to the aspirin isle of the pharmacy, if not the produce section of the supermarket? Our teenage central planner’s (Ocasio-Cortez) afterbirth – The Green New Deal – disappeared without a trace as people began to realize the insanity of reshaping our society according to the musings of sophomores in pot-smoke-filled dorm rooms.
The same fate awaited the LA-to-SF bullet train because the idea probably originated in the same dorm room.
What’s left is a rump. Were the same young and addled geniuses responsible for a bullet train from … Bakersfield to Merced? With the fiscal probity of drunken sailors, Californians showered $5.4 billion on the $100 billion psychedelic vision. Virginia’s governor, Ralph Northam, showed the way out of the morass: allow it to be born – Bakersfield to Merced – and then abort it. Gavin Newsom, California’s hair-gelled governor, played the role of Kermit Gosnell.
Good riddance.
RogerG