How California’s Paradise Become our Purgatory

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

What happened to the once-beautiful California paradise? California became a medieval

society of plutocratic barons, subsidized peasants, and a shrinking and fleeing middle class. It is now home to a few rich estates, subsidized apartments, and unaffordable middle-class houses. The fantasies of a protected enclave of Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, and the masters of the Silicon Valley universe have become the abject nightmares of everyone else. In sum, a privileged Bay Area elite inherited a California paradise and turned it into purgatory.