{"id":312700,"date":"2019-06-18T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=312700"},"modified":"2019-06-19T15:53:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T19:53:52","slug":"vdh-on-how-liberalism-destroyed-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/06\/18\/vdh-on-how-liberalism-destroyed-california\/","title":{"rendered":"VDH on How Liberalism Destroyed California"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Victor Davis Hanson was on with Chatsworth Osborne Jr. last night on the Fox News Channel. And I want to play these two bites. Victor Davis Hanson lives in California as a farmer. He lives and works, he lives on a farm not far from Fresno. And he knows the circumstances of life away from the coast. But he also works at the Hoover Institute, which is a Never Trumper conservative think tank at Stanford in Palo Alto, and he goes there occasionally.<\/p>\n

So he\u2019s got the experience of life throughout the state of California. There\u2019s nobody better to accurately describe what California has become. Now, I want to play this also because yesterday we had the news that the governor, Gavin Newsom, said that Republicans are becoming pass\u00e9, a party headed for the garbage bin, the dustbin of history. And he said the reason for it is that the Republicans proposed denying health care and welfare benefits, free education to illegal immigrants. It was Prop 187.<\/p>\n

Prop 187 passed. Fifty-nine percent of California voted for Prop 187 in 1994. Gavin Newsom said that\u2019s what killed the Republican Party.<\/a> It\u2019s not what killed the Republican Party. A federal judge overturning it and throwing it out. What killed the Republican Party is numbers and demographics, open borders, bringing illegals in and finding ways to flood the culture and the electoral system.<\/p>\n

Anyway, in discussing California, why I think Trump should go there, as you just heard me stealthfully mention to the vice president, California, as I said the other day, it\u2019s beautiful. But it\u2019s so many different things in one state, and there\u2019s nobody better at describing it and characterizing it than Victor Davis Hanson. So he\u2019s on with Tucker Carlson. The question: \u201cIn what sense is California a Third World state, in your opinion?\u201d<\/p>\n

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HANSON: It has all the symptoms of what we associate with failed states. It\u2019s got the highest basket of income tax, gasoline taxes, sales tax, and yet its schools are rated in the last 10%, the bottom 10% of the nation\u2019s test scores. One-third of the nation\u2019s welfare recipients live in California, a fifth of the population is below the poverty line, a fifth of all the homeless people in the United States live in California. We have the most billionaires of any state in the nation. And then we have the largest underclass.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, stop and think about that. How can that be with liberal Democrats running it? Aren\u2019t billionaires supposed to be eviscerated? Aren\u2019t billionaires supposed to — all their money taken from \u2019em and redistributed in socialist economies and societies where everything is equal and everyone\u2019s the same and there\u2019s no pain because nobody\u2019s ever laughed at, nobody\u2019s ever made fun of, nobody ever loses.<\/p>\n

And yet California, look at these numbers. A fifth of the population is below the poverty line, a fifth of all homeless live in California. The most billionaires of any state and the largest underclass with liberal Democrats running this state for decades. How can that be?<\/p>\n

And then Joe Biden\u2019s out there saying the first thing he\u2019s gonna do, his Mondale impersonation, gonna raise taxes, the first thing he\u2019s gonna do is raise taxes. These billionaires are gonna start paying — nope, nope, not. If it\u2019s not happening in California, it isn\u2019t happening, \u2019cause every damn one of these liberal Democrat politicians wants to be one of these billionaires or as close to one as they can get. So the comments continue. This is Mr. Hanson talking about how Gavin Newsom got it all wrong in deciding and determining what happened to Republicans out there.<\/p>\n

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HANSON: Governor Newsom\u2019s got it exactly wrong. Twenty-five years ago when we had Prop 187, that passed by 59% of the population. It fueled Pete Wilson\u2019s come from behind victory over Kathleen Brown. It was very popular. But three days later a federal court invalidated it, and that got rid of it, the deterrent factor, and people wanted to come to California, often illegally, and they resided here illegally. And that was unfortunately part of a perfect storm where at the same time four to six million people over the next 25 years said, if I\u2019m gonna pay the highest basket of taxes and get the worst roads, infrastructure, public schools, and among the highest crime rates, then I might as well go where there\u2019s no income taxes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right. It\u2019s a combination of the influx of illegals being granted endless warfare causing the beginning of people leaving the state. Many of them were Republicans. But it wasn\u2019t, as the governor said, the passage or the support of Prop 187 that killed the Republican Party in California. Quite the opposite.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, now we go to CNN and the problems with LA homelessness. They sent a reporter out there, Maeve Reston, to do a report on “the tent culture,” the tent culture of the LA homeless. Now, when Trump supporters are in tents like they are today in Orlando waiting for the president to make a speech, they\u2019re ignored, they\u2019re mocked, they\u2019re laughed at. But you go to a tent city of the homeless, and my gosh, you\u2019ve got some of the greatest virtue, some of the greatest people on earth.<\/p>\n

Here is Maeve Reston\u2019s report. She gets a question here from one of the other anchorettes. “The number of homeless people in Los Angeles gone up 16% this year. Why? What have you learned, Maeve?”<\/p>\n

RESTON: There are so many obstacles to getting, uh, these 60,000 people housed in LA County, and it\u2019s not just the fact that there\u2019s resistance in neighborhoods. But many of the folks that we talk to who are living out on the streets are facing mental health issues, substance abuse issues. And this huge tent culture has really grown up here. And a lot of people want to stay in their tents, you know, feeling that if they are put in housing, they\u2019ll be subject to rules; uh, they\u2019ll lose their freedom.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. They want to stay in their tents because they don\u2019t want to deal with the rules of living in a house, and we have to respect that. We have to respect that. There\u2019s much more freedom living in a tent or a shopping cart. There\u2019s a bunch of different things that are analogous to a tent. It\u2019s always amazed me that the left says, “It\u2019s perfectly fine for people to live in tents!” They make the case for it. “Hey, they want to live in tents. Hey, they want to live in shopping carts.<\/p>\n

“Who are you to take it away from them?” Rather than try to improve their lot, their circumstance, instead you make the case that the Democrat Party has compassion and is caring for them. “If they want to stay in tents, then by golly we\u2019re gonna make sure they stay in tents or shopping carts.” So next, the infobabe Poppy Harlow was talking about the instances of homelessness in Los Angeles with Maeve Reston later on, and this is the conversation that ensued…<\/p>\n

\"\"HARLOW: It\u2019s a remarkable story. I mean, I was stunned when I saw the headline. And also, your reporting the fact that youth homelessness there is up 24% in the last year.<\/p>\n

MAN: (groans)<\/p>\n

HARLOW: And I just wonder why this is happening when the economy is so good. Is it this issue of the growing income divide which, you know, a lot of tech executives like Marc Benioff recently called it “unbridled capitalism”? Is that part of what\u2019s at play here?<\/p>\n

RESTON: That\u2019s exactly… Yeah, that\u2019s exactly right, Poppy! And you have even the presidential candidates, uhh, talking about this now, the fact that so many people are facing economic hardship in states like California, where housing prices are through the roof and people just can\u2019t afford the rent anymore. And so you have families living in cars across the city.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who\u2019s running the city, Ms. Reston? Who\u2019s running the state? You got more billionaires in the state of California than anywhere else, and you got one-fifth of the homeless population of the country in California. Where\u2019s all this compassion? Where\u2019s all this mandatory take-it-from the billionaires and give it to the others? You blame this on unbridled capitalism?<\/p>\n

\u201cExactly, Poppy, exactly. That\u2019s exactly right. Unbridled capitalism.\u201d And, of course, that theory came from Marc Benioff, who, what is he, Salesforce? He\u2019s some highfalutin tech company. He\u2019s a billionaire. He\u2019s out there, \u201cUnbridled capitalism is why there\u2019s homeless.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Benioff, with one check you could get all those homeless people out of LA and put in a house somewhere, and then you could pay the utilities for a year. You could do that, and you wouldn\u2019t even miss it. But no ho-ho-ho-ho, isn\u2019t gonna happen, because that precedent we cannot establish.<\/p>\n

So in this sense, California owns it, LA owns it in a political sense. And when they\u2019re blaming unbridled capitalism, let me tell you what they\u2019re doing. They\u2019re blaming it on Trump, they\u2019re blaming it on conservatives, they\u2019re blaming it on Republicans. That\u2019s what that means.<\/p>\n

It is an ideological argument. And it\u2019s never made any intellectual sense because these people all end up beating up the system that made them wealthy, made them affluent and continues to. People in the news media. Well, some of them. The amount of ignorance coupled with a really damaged ideology is on constant, daily display in the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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