Timothy Egan, writing a lengthy mash note to California in the New York
Times:
The issue here isn't unthinking contempt -- conservatives don't want to see California reduced to some sort of post-apocalpytic wasteland to get their jollies. It's that they understand that there are consequences to institutional liberalism -- and they'd like to see its practitioners learn from that.
Speaking as someone who's made a cottage industry out of critical pieces on public policy in the Golden State, I regard the whole situation as tragic. So too do most of the long-time Californians who've waited year after year for things to get better -- and who now, increasingly, are outbound from paradise.
They're not rooting against California. They're rooting against the people who've ruined one of the greatest natural bounties the nation has to offer. Contra Egan, That strikes me as the very essence of patriotism.
http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Beyond-the-Point-of-Parody
... There is something irrational, indeed unpatriotic, in rooting for California to fail, as so many conservatives are now doing. Sure, they are upset that the Republican Party is dead in this state — R.I.P. G.O.P. And, among the fringes, there are those who cannot accept that California is a minority-majority state, with whites making up about 39 percent of the population. They’ve seen the future and don’t like it one bit.Swing and a miss.
The issue here isn't unthinking contempt -- conservatives don't want to see California reduced to some sort of post-apocalpytic wasteland to get their jollies. It's that they understand that there are consequences to institutional liberalism -- and they'd like to see its practitioners learn from that.
Speaking as someone who's made a cottage industry out of critical pieces on public policy in the Golden State, I regard the whole situation as tragic. So too do most of the long-time Californians who've waited year after year for things to get better -- and who now, increasingly, are outbound from paradise.
They're not rooting against California. They're rooting against the people who've ruined one of the greatest natural bounties the nation has to offer. Contra Egan, That strikes me as the very essence of patriotism.
http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Beyond-the-Point-of-Parody
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