Nolte: California’s Leftist Utopia Can’t Even Keep the Electricity On
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If California can’t keep the electricity on, if California can’t perform basics tasks like forest and brush management, if your once beautiful cities are now killing fields of human waste, needles, and the homeless, you are a failed state.
California is a failed state.
A failed state is one that cannot deliver the basics: personal safety, adequate shelter, adequate transportation, and basic sanitation.
Those are the only things we need local government for, and that is all government should be for, and sane people understand that. But there are not enough sane people in California to fix a state that is almost certainly beyond repair, too far gone to ever come up with the 51 percent of voters needed to put sane, grounded leaders into the state capitol. I am talking about leaders who will focus on the basics before they chase the unicorn of a green energy utopia, who are not willing to watch responsible home and business owners chased away by outrageous taxes, regulations, and fuel costs, but are willing to defy the enviro-nuts to remove the brush and trees close to power lines.
Even New York City, at its worst in the seventies, was not as failed as the state of California is now.
As I write this, millions and millions of Californians, who pay outrageously high taxes, are having their electricity cut off for up to a full week because 1) Californian can afford to give illegal aliens free health care and welfare, but not bury power lines, and 2) California can waste untold billions on green energy boondoggles but refuses to upset Mother Earth by implementing proven forest management techniques.
Apparently Mother Earth would rather burn than receive a brush-cut.
Can you imagine not having electricity for five days?
I’m 53-years-old, I’ve lived in rural areas most my life, and the longest I’ve been without power is 14 hours.
Oh, sure, California has all kinds of time and money to welcome, house, feed, educate, and provide for illegal aliens, but look at what is happening to the legal residents of California:
Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. said its latest blackout would affect about 1.5 million people in 29 counties. At the same time, about 1 million people were still without power Tuesday after a shut-off over the weekend that affected nearly 2.7 million.…Petaluma resident Scotty Richardson, whose lights went out Saturday, said the prospect that power might not be restored for days makes him “furious, furious.”He vented frustration over the on-again, off-again outages but also anger at the utility’s role in causing deadly fires in the past, and apparently sparking some of this season’s blazes.“PG&E can’t figure out how to deliver power reliably without killing people,” he said. “This is more than three strikes — it’s a failure of epic proportions.”
Already, one person has been killed by these ridiculous blackouts, a 67-year-old man who was dependent on oxygen.
And then there’s the most infuriating part of all this…
Even with these blackouts…
The state is still getting hammered by deadly wildfires.
But great job California, voting in super-majorities of Democrats, so many Democrats they can get away with whatever they wish without any fear of pushback or ever losing electoral power.
You might not have any power for your air conditioner, refrigerator, and baby monitor, but you still gave Democrats unlimited political power.
While your power is off for five days, your government is using your tax dollars to pay for a prisoner’s sex change operation.
Naturally, the politicians are blaming PG&E, as though those same politicians have no control over PG&E.
The hoax of Global Warming is also being blamed, as though that would be a legitimate excuse even if it were true. This is not the first time, after all, that California has been beset by drought and the Santa Ana winds. This problem reaches back decades, and here California is, knee-deep in the 21st Century, with all this wonderful technology and a third of a trillion — with a “T” — dollars in annual revenue, and the government still cannot keep your electricity on, still cannot stop the wildfires.
It’s outrageous. Good heavens, this is the United States of America, and we have a state that can only come up with the genius idea of pushing its own citizens back into the Dark Ages to NOT stop wildfires.
What is most discouraging, though, is the lack of anything that looks like a voter backlash.
I mean, if more than 50 percent of California’s citizens are willing to keep a government in power incapable of delivering the basics, if they prefer social justice over electricity… Well, that is just the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen. This is not how Americans are supposed to behave.
Sheeple indeed.
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Democrats turning California into
a third-world hellhole: Going without electricity edition
Democrats are turning California into a third-world hellhole
without electricity, water, and freedom.
Due to Democrats' love
for trees, at least 800,000 Californians will be without power for several
days. Instead of properly managing California forests to reduce the
chances of big fires, Democrats are saying Californians have to go without
lights, refrigerators, and air-conditioning. Democrats could also
avoid this by not making the power company financially liable for all forest
fire damages, but since PG&E is a company, not an illegal alien, the
Democrats couldn't care less about doing what's best for California.
While they try to blame
climate change and the infrastructure, the reality is that neither of those has
caused any significant changes in the last ten years — but now, suddenly, due
to Democrat policies, Californians have to start living in the 18th century.
The Democrats who run
California also refuse to build more water storage capacity even though the
state's population has dramatically increased, ensuring that water has to be
rationed during droughts.
Democrats are turning
California into a third-world country economically. The income
inequality between the über-rich Silicon Valley workers and the rest of
Californians is huge, just like in third-world countries, while the elites live
in luxury and the rest live in squalor.
Democrats are doing a
great job manufacturing poverty and homelessness even as they fail to instill
hope in Californians.
California has four times more homeless per
capita and three times more poor per capita than the rest of
America. Half the homeless in America are in California, even though
California has only 12% of the U.S. population. Also, blacks are six
times more prevalent in the San
Francisco homeless population than they are in California in general.
The homeless explosion
has brought the return of third-world diseases like typhus to California — not
to mention streets littered with human feces.
Democrats are trying to
keep people from having cars, just like the people of the Third
World. After all, a car gives people the freedom to move, and
freedom is a bad thing in the minds of Democrats since it limits the power the
government has over citizens.
Recently, Gavin Newsom,
the Democrat governor, transferred millions of dollars that the voters had been
ensured would go to improve the state's failing road infrastructure to a fund
designed to convince Californians to give up their cars.
Democrats are also
working to make cars unaffordable for any but the richest Californians.
Californians pay $1.53 more for a gallon for
gasoline than the rest of America. That's $21 more for a tank of
gasoline. Facebook employees won't notice it, but the poor in
California who can't afford to live near their jobs are paying through the
teeth.
Like all third-world
tyrants, Democrats are doing everything they can to eliminate democracy in
California.
The jungle primary, where
the top two candidates in the primaries go against each other, has resulted in
many races where two Democrats are running against each other, giving voters
who don't agree with the Democrats' failed policies no one to vote for.
California is doing
nothing to ensure that people who shouldn't vote don't
vote. Instead, the people running the state are doing everything
possible to let illegal aliens vote. When illegal aliens go pick up
their driver's licenses, they're automatically enrolled to vote unless they say
they're not citizens.
California is also trying
to end democracy by keeping the Republican presidential candidate off the
ballot. Democrats passed an unconstitutional law to keep any
candidate who didn't release his tax returns off the ballot solely to keep
Californians from voting for Trump.
Finally, the Democrats
are going after freedom of the press. An undercover journalist
revealed that Planned Parenthood was selling aborted baby
parts. Instead of investigating that illegal practice, Democrat
Kamala Harris decided to put the journalist on trial.
Democrats keep telling us
California is the future if they get elected. That means that
poverty, homelessness, the end of democracy, and a press that reports only what
Democrats want heard are what Democrats are promising us.
If you're an immensely
wealthy Google employee, California is Heaven. If you're not, it's
becoming more and more like Hell.
You can read more of Tom's rants at his blog, Conversations
about the obvious, and feel free to follow him on Twitter.
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