{"id":2696,"date":"2018-01-15T18:52:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T01:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2018-01-15T18:52:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T01:52:41","slug":"why-is-liberal-california-the-poverty-capital-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=2696","title":{"rendered":"Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Apparently content with futile poverty policies, Sacramento lawmakers can turn their attention to what historian Victor Davis Hanson aptly describes as a fixation on \u201cremaking the world.\u201d The political class wants to build a costly and needless high-speed rail system; talks of secession from a United States presided over by Donald Trump; hired former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. to \u201cresist\u201d Trump\u2019s agenda; enacted the first state-level cap-and-trade regime; established California as a \u201csanctuary state\u201d for illegal immigrants; banned plastic bags, threatening the jobs of thousands of workers involved in their manufacture; and is consumed by its dedication to \u201cCalifornia values.\u201d All this only reinforces the rest of America\u2019s perception of an out-of-touch Left Coast, to the disservice of millions of Californians whose values are more traditional, including many of the state\u2019s poor residents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obvious. See Venezuela. Liberalism\/socialism always ends badly.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-jackson-california-poverty-20180114-story.html\">Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently content with futile poverty policies, Sacramento lawmakers can turn their attention to what historian Victor Davis Hanson aptly describes as a fixation on \u201cremaking the world.\u201d The political class wants to build a costly and needless high-speed rail system; talks of secession from a United States presided over by Donald Trump; hired former attorney &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=2696\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3,125,75,51,76,103,110,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-evil","category-democrats","category-liberals","category-greedy-liberals","category-mental-illness","category-socialism-communism","category-war-on-reality","category-welfare-is-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}