Victor Davis Hanson: The Demise of California 

I’m a 60 year old 4th generation Southern Arizonan of Mexican descent and this entire state is falling to the type of policies that have been incrementally destroying California. Illegal immigration changed the culture, population and economics of Tucson among other factors at the hands of liberal lawmakers. My city was historically Kennedy-era Democrat (I don’t think any blue city is anymore) and a quite nice, well managed, business friendly, police supporting city. Like so many places though, it’s all gone to utter shit at the willfully negligent and incompetent actions of extreme liberals. I PERSONALLY have no friends or acquaintances I grew up with who didn’t welcome everything Trump stood for at the time of his initial presidential run.

Victor is a dying voice. Good luck folks

@@fearsomefan1 ""Victor is a dying voice"" you said , and San Francisco is a dying city ... Tell me , What do you think is more relevant ??

@xavierdaume2757 Victor is an amazing person, but he's been speaking on this for many, many years and no one is listening.. well.. I guess some people are listening but nothing is changing. San Francisco is lost and I think that issue is more relevant especially for the people who live there.

*YOU NEED TO REALISE - THIS IS NOT THE DEMISE OF CALIFORNIA* this is the demise of America, it is just manifesting itself FIRST in California as CF is the most American part of America In 20 years ALL of America will look like this - so don't be looking on smugly thinking "it can't happen here" - IT CAN AND IT WILL. And dont be smugly thinking the GOP did this to America, and don't be smugly thinking the Dems did this to America - they BOTH did this to America. It started with Reagan, Clinton accelerated it, Bush got you into unwinnable wars, Obama promised change and a new world and delivered NOTHING except Trump. And YOU did this to America, the people of America. You made money your God and you voted for the parties who promised cake today over long-term investment in society and infrastructure. I'm an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations - and this is the end.

The 1% sent the jobs away and pitted us against each other. You are complaining about one side of a coin.

Hey, give Republicans the credit they deserve! They helped!

Yes, Dems control CA but Repubs are equally as bad. Why? Both parties take money from the same donors. ZERO money to help citizens, but plenty for military & Ukraine.

You gotta stop thinking in terms of team politics. They all serve corporate power. It's exactly how our rulers wanted it.

​@@jamesdavis9036Did they really? How, exactly how, did they do that? I'll wait.

Yep…and history is full of the same kind of elitists from all over the world…and eventually, they all end up against the wall, facing a firing squad… And it couldn’t come soon enough…

Doesn’t help that Texas deals with illegal immigrants by sending them here. What’s CA supposed to do, toss them in the ocean?

Well done! Lucky you, you now have a new wise old uncle who will tell you the truth about things….

He is brilliant and honest

It is almost as if Leftists like to destroy things.

Suicide by legislation and voter ignorance?

What Davis fails to realize is housing costs driven by wealthy real estate investors is a driving force for much of California problems and homeless. Population control and regulating real estate greed solves a bunch of it. Build resident managed homeless cabin camps with free micro doses of fentanyl solves the homeless issue. Does Davis have any ideas to improve the situation?

And just think... the Democrats are actually thinking of making Gavin Newsom the next President of the United States, *the same guy California unsuccessfully tried recall from office.* This is a truly terrifying prospect. I left my home in Los Angeles 25-years ago, and I never regretted it. The entire state has become an annex of Mexico, and it will continue to degrade. I predict that San Francisco will be the first US city to become extinct, with other major Blue States failing in swift succession.

You communist in California have what's coming to you this is what you get for voting BIDEN

Possessions, power, and status are all earned qualities you’re not given those things unless your last name is Biden.

Rome collapsed when Romans allowed too many non-Romans into their borders and hired foreigners to serve in the military. The non-Romans wanted the life Romans lived but didn't have the culture to support it.

Exactly.

yeah thats total bullsh!t

Rich men north of Richmond is also about corrupt California left wing government. Filling the pockets on high taxes. But is also applies to Europe. Where most people are paying high taxes to socialist corrupt governments.

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Cancer man! It's all a cancer that just keeps spreading. That's what happens when the soul is so ignored it starts eating itself.

Because the elites of California are aware and don't care, it doesn't affect them. "They're never subjected to the consequences of their own actions".

That is indeed his strength. If you read him, however, he may be perceived quite differently.

They'd have to want to fix it, and they don't.

They have to admit they are wrong. They won’t do that. Their plan is to keep themselves in power and it’s working. Surround yourself with stupid people, and you will be the most intelligent person in the room, even with an IQ of 9.

Because democrats are evil fascists who only care about power.

diversity is just another term for less huite pea pull

Diversity just divides the masses

That was the conclusion of a liberal Harvard professor's 2002 study. Not the outcome wanted but the truth.

@@joefell7845 "Bowling Alone," by Robert Putnam.

Yes.. as the Native American classic " Bury my heart at wounded knee" alluded to so poignantly?

smart !!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's only gotten worse since. I've lived in Los Angeles since 1999. Probably move back East in the near future.

Are you real estate refugees like myself and my wife?

I lived in Alameda in 1969- 1971... Go Navy... California was a beautiful state back then... never been back. USS MIDWAY was my ship. I won't be going back to see her in San Diego.

Just don’t blue again

It's happening across Europe. We are all downstream of California. Where California leads, we can't stop ourselves from following.

*** Here is some GOOD news. A, B, and C, are NOT going to wake up. The POLITICIANS are quite HAPPY with the chaos and imbalance in their countries. They do not KNOW how to solve problems, and they insist on TAKING loose-leafed ADVICE from people for whom I did not vote. You and I can see the implications of massive immigration, but they see themselves as acting "HUMANELY." They have IGNORED the POOR in their own countries, but they are importing MORE poor people to join the burgeoning ranks. America, Britain and Canada.

Britain always was a Sch@thole

That’s why mixing of races and different cultures are so bad for all countries. John Cleese stated that London in no longer English.

@@leonidas7776 Agreed. Lack of assimilation (learning the language and history of that culture, etc.) will bring down any society.

Yes, a lot of people like to cap on California but a lot of the problems that are experiencing this state are happening in other states as well. Thanks for pointing that out.

Feel sad about this happening

People everywhere tolerate these ignorant wicked inept actors, even vote for them.

Much better then deep red southern states like Mississippi. Republicans utopia!! 😂🤣😂🤣

How do you defend failed red states? Is that the dirty Dems too?

blame the election fraud that put awful people into office

@@fromthepeanutgallery1084 The only people who are flocking here are illegal aliens, criminals, and homeless people. But middle class people are leaving socialist shit-hole California for free states like Florida, Texas, Tennessee, South Carolina, and South Dakota because they want a better quality of life. California has already lost over a million people in the last two years and has actually lost a congressional seat because of it. I'm 52 years old and I was born in California and I've lived here my whole life and I have watched this once great state turn into the socialist shit-hole that it is today. That's what happens when you have a one-party state run by a socialist party called the Democratic Party. As soon as I retire from my job I will definitely be getting the fuck out of California and moving to a free state.

@@fromthepeanutgallery1084It is thinking like that that has caused this once great state to plumet into a cesspool of crime, drugs, and out of reach prices. Wake up and stop feeding the problem!

Direct consequences of woke ideology. Dear Californians you voted for it, so just suck it up.

​@@fromthepeanutgallery1084Let me guess, your on public assistance.

should of stayed in montana.

I'm not sure that I'd call it socialism. It's just a sign of corruption and insincerity on the part of leaders.

“This is what socialism does” Not sure you know what socialism is mate

@@breadcrumbtvyou’re probably the ignorant one.

@@breadcrumbtv Cali is a one party state, and it is not conservatives running it, but big government socialists. But truly, I am being too kind, because what runs CA is a fascist globalist kleptocracy.

​​@@breadcrumbtvhe gave you a perfect example of it. What do you think it is? I'm guessing they are no longer teaching about the danger of it in schools anymore.

people keep voting for corrupt democrats and still not awake after all the destruction the party has brought.

Is what happens when you legalize weed, then the lazy stoners move to harder drugs, next your unemployed and stuck in a vortex of addiction.

@@lumberjaxe8910litteralt has nothing to do with weed your words prove whats wrong with your country. 🤦‍♂️

​@@Thedrunkenswede1337 Certainly has much to do with drugs. If these people wanted work they could find work. They would attempt to re educate them selves or at least travel away for opportunity. In our country we cant even get fruit pickers. Majority of these people lick there wounds and get high. The Government enables them to a degree.Look at Kensington Philadelphia what a mess and shamefull, Remember God loves you, and keep off the wacky tabacky or whatever else mind altering spirit ceasing substance that the devil tempts you with.Love you Mr swedish Guy.

Ojai is very beautiful-still-even after the thomas fires. Lake Casitas is in overflow during the rain. California is the most beautiful state/my opinion/. I will not leave my very valuable land-property home, views. sheri g-

Did Hanson have any useful ideas? Sowell? Jordan Peterson?

Sin is the number one problem. When do they ever talk about sin?

@@bobbyadkins6983 How do you define sin?

Thomas Sowell was a Reagan architect, he's one of the ones RESPONSIBLE for the state of america. Anybody that thinks thats just california is crazy.

Acting against ones self. The moral law based on logos. ...

Well thank you Mr. Helper.

If ever.

Direct consequences of woke ideology. Dear Californians you voted for it, so just suck it up.

Ideology has always mattered more than both. 😅

I'll take migrants over socialist any day. But fuck me if all the migrants aren't socialist

I was there in Kern Co. California at that time as a teen and it was paradise to anyone who tried hard! None of the imbeciles in charge in today's world have a clue. All they do is spread their lies, deceit, 3rd world B.S. and hate and talk about poor old minorities and the supposed mean old white race who is the reason they can't make it as adults.

Racist

I could almost imagine myself hearing those stories...ITS JUST NOT FAIR OR RIGHT OR HUMAN..❤ I LOVE YOUR COMMENT ❤

I grew up in New York, same story. I'm 70 so I remember a better world.

They will vote for whoever CNN tells them to. Quintessential NPCs.

He is easy on the eyes, and is persuasive. The People will prefer a 'Movie Star', rather than policy.

That might be their plan tbh.

But a lot of women will vote for him, purely for looks.

Klanocrats continued their support of Ted Kennedy after the murder of MARY JO KOPECHE @ CHAPPAQUIDDICK

It's sad listening to how resigned he always sounds now - he's been warning people of where things are headed for so long, and for so long he's been ignored, and been proved right again and again and again.

I agree , but would add Thomas Sowell , Larry Elder, Jordan Peterson to name a few but we have to search them out because most of media dose not. want us to hear what they have to say.

Sad to say but all of those great minds are part of the problem. They have no problem making millions speaking on these problems and being part of the elite. But when it comes time to act and actually run for positions that could actually change anything, they are nowhere to be found. Jordan Peterson is just watching while his country falls apart, while he simultaneously saying he has the answers

​@@dougmiller7944BINGO! It's called Education! We MUST start educating youngsters from the minute! they are born! so they won't listen to the bought off indoctrinating media! Love how Mr. V D Hanson tells it like it is!

@@dougmiller7944 Totally agree. But men like Jordan Peterson are clinical psychologists, NOT appropriate to this conversation.

And Krypton 🤔

Most likely corrupted their monetary system to and caused corruption from the top, downward.

should of stayed in montana.

It’s more about policies than wealth.

Did you vote for Biden

Legal or illegal, immigration is a disaster.

It's not just illegal immigration and the financial burdens that creates for the state. Many immigrants from Central America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East have come to California as he mentions in the interview. Many tech workers from India earning six or seven figures bring their parents and many of them get free Medi-Cal and get better health care services at Stanford than most native Californians. The state is overcrowded, dirty and the infrastructure is poor condition.

You guys voted your lousy leadership in.

Keep voting democrat.

My family came to California in 1903 - from…….Mexico, and loved California and the USA and became citizens as soon as they could! They assimilated well, learned the language quickly (there were no ESL classes back then) and eventually purchased land to farm in Southern California! About forty years later, they sold their lots of land and became millionaires! They were humble people who worked hard and saved their money! I also have extended family (uncles, aunts and cousins of my grandfather) who were living in California for many generations- even before it became a part of the United States! The media NEVER tells the public about minority/Hispanic success stories, only the stories that Hispanic and other minorities are “always poor, uneducated, illegal, criminal; etc.” Many Hispanic families that have been in California for generations are also proud Americans and proud Californians too! PEOPLE ARE INDIVIDUALS, and NOT all Hispanics fit a negative stereotype!! And if you’re going to lament how deteriorated California has become, POINT THE FINGER IN THE DIRECTION OF THE LEFT LEANING LEADERSHIP - not a particular ethnic group.

So you miss living in the best state in the union, so you have to justify that mistake by pretending to hate it and you are a paranoid racist who is a perfect person in every way. Just like Donnie! Gotcha.

For sure.

Democrats destroyed Detroit Michigan.

Which is how California voters like it.

That's leftism aka defacto for you.

It is so sad! The violence is just out of control! Savage 😢

It was never great under the conservatives, they are the ones that ruined California for all but the rich people

Oh, like when Reagan got rid of free college in California?

It doesn't help matters that the California climate (especially near the Pacific) is so temperate. Would a homeless person want to live somewhere with normal temps in the moderate range or in a hell hole like Texas (where temps are over 100 for several months)? Air conditioning costs money in a hot climate.

Travel up and down the coastline and you will still see it as magical, as is Big Sur. Just stay away from the big cities.

try hitching today. stay in montana.

I was down in that area a few weeks ago and it is still breathtakingly beautiful and magical. Don't believe all the BS the Donnie party is crying and lying about. Ever since Pelosi make look like the stupid fool he is, he has gaslit our state and our people with his hatred and ignorance. Don't buy his Nazi brainwashing crap he dishes out daily. California is still a great state! Like when you travel to big cities on the east coast, or anywhere in the world, avoid the well-known bad areas and you should just fine. The only real problem I have looking back at the 60's, 70's and 80's, was everything was affordable back then if you had a full time job. That was before hyper greedy white collar criminals reared their ugly heads in the mid 80's, wiping out the middle class, led by silver spooned a-holes like Donnie and politicians like Reagan and his trickle down BS. Have a nice day and visit again soon!

California started to go downhill in the early Seventies. You miss the time when California was a magical place to live in like Disneyland in 1955.

Cali is still great

For the sake of the new community you reside in, I hope you observed the consequences of electing poor policy makers.

@@cash5627 I am a conservative, therefore if I vote at all, I would vote in conservatives. Unfortunately, my vote doesn't really count because I live in a Democrat run state again. It's not as bad as California, but it is still pretty bad. I certainly didn't vote for the policy makers in this state. A lot of times, when you're a conservative living in a liberal state, your voice doesn't count.

Texas suffers from many of the same problems to be honest. This isnt a Democratic only issue. Texas has terrible energy infrastructure, squalid rural poverty for hundreds of miles on end and rampant obesity.

Does Davis have a solution?

He and his kind are all about the money, human beings don't even come into their thinking.

“…the saddest and best decision…” I hear you. We moved from CA to TX.

And you no longer have the ocean. You have extremely dry and hot weather. You can’t take a quick road trip to the mountains. I wouldn’t move to Vegas if you paid me.

Yes crooks greedy all of them

@@corgising5606 I stay with friends and they pay the taxes. Also I don’t need the beach that much as I was a surfer and city lifeguard for many years. You can’t even park at the beach.

Vegas is a hell hole as well. No culture. No ocean.

Don't think the nation is learning anything

@@thomascsmlth9126 🤞🏻

UN has its agents in every political office

should of stayed in montana.

OMG YES .... best comment on this threat today. I live in CA and am trying to explain to folks who don't understand that THIS, THIS is the very utopia the blind, smug, self-rightous whackos on the far left of the D party want. They orgasm at the victory! This is all going just as they planned ....if not, better even!!!!!

Poor thing, that's when the Beach Boys were in the process of making the next two decades awesome here in CA!! We're the same age, sorry you missed out on all the beaches and fun, but more girls for us!!

In 1965 it was a paradise, and for 10 years beyond that.

I didn't miss a thing!

@@stillanoldman How can you know that if you weren't there. Back in the 60's and 70's California was really great - especially from a child's point of view. It was just the right amount of freedom AND responsibility.

Damn you missed out on the best life.

I grew up in the LA suburbs during that same time. We’d go hang out at the beach by ourselves…no parents…drive all over the place at night…no fear. My parents would let us have free run at Magic Mountain (just meet back up with us at 5pm for dinner). In 7 years it was over run with gangs and 100% unsafe. Between 1979 and 1980, in one year, Santa Monica Pier became dangerous: I was at the arcade one night and saw all the exits were blocked by a sea of Pendleton’s and khaki chinos. I remember my first exposure at 18 to a co-worker whose friend was shot in a gang related shooting. It took 3-4 years from what I remembered as my safe suburb to change. California and it’s policies have now infected every state.

Sure. Guess you didn't worry about the Manson Family, The Scorecard Killer, The Zodiac Killer, Smog.

​@@DoStuff1958those are anomalies. Definitely not the norm at that time. Take your strawman home and play video games with him/her/it.

We have a systemic problem in a two party dualistic insanity. Republican leadership is worse!

@@DoStuff1958drops in the bucket … try going into a shopping center and just standing there while a bunch of kids steal and break everything because if you smack one or take the bag they are stealing your now at fault . These laws and lack of accountability are here for one reason . To separate our country .

💔Native Midwesterner here for 26 years and counting. Sucks that you had to leave the state you love because of Left-wing moronic demons whose end goal is that of a 3rd world country. God bless

So you miss California and are disappointed in yourself for leaving because of blown out of proportion lies and Donnie's hatred and hysteria. Got it. Oh and you are a bigot and probably a racist too. Yeah, maybe Texas is more your style. Not to worry, it will all be over soon.

Still is and the redwoods are a lot bigger! C'mon out for a visit!

Still is. They are too lazy to wreck the 1,000 mile long state. It’s still great. Just don’t live in a blue county.

Still is, just ignore the homeless…

The CA coastline is unsurpassable. Florida has the best beaches, but CA comes close.

The optimum word in your post is "was". And yes, I agree with you -- it WAS a beautiful state.

Well said. I totally agree with you.

The wealthy elites coupled with their corporate transnational vehicles have done a fantastic job of obfuscating the reasons and problems that have transformed California and the rest of the US since the boom after WWII. It's quite convenient that the Unions and Tax policies that really laid down the foundations for US prosperity got demonized and neutered by the transformation of Politicians from serving their constituents to serving their lobbyists and corporate/private interests. Trickle down is a lie. There's enough wealth to be taxed that's being extracted by the Corporations, Stock Market system, and the Exploitation of Labor that Modern Economics embraces to reinvigorate and transform the US. Look to the policies that created the Interstate system, something that's currently in a neglected state due to a lack of budgeting to keep infrastructure like bridges and highways properly maintained. Look to the current insane cost of living, where a mere 40 years ago one could rent in most areas off of a typical wage and still have enough to live and save. Now, with the same wage, it's impossible without special accomadation like being a liveaboard on a boat or renting from a friend. It's insane to just pick one side to blame in this, and if we can't collectively realize this, we are doomed. There's so many things to look at that are problems caused by both sides of the Political aisle being so unbelievably Polarized that the lockstep it creates in US Leadership will march us off the proverbial precipice sooner or later.

For the first 150 years the country was mostly British, with some Germans thrown in, white Anglo Saxon protestant.

Nah it’s diversity. You just care more about yourself than the country you ruined. America was 90+ % white until a few decades ago.

There are 2 tribes - Democrats and Republicans - assimilation won't solve that problem.

Oh....no more Leave it to Beaver for you???

Ditto. It’s heartbreaking to go back and see it.

And the people who live there now like what they've created.

Where did you go??

Hope you didn't move to Canada. TruDick and FreeLoader have made the entire country a California.

Aaahhhhh, Russia. The homeland of MAGA!

should of never traveled here.

good riddence!

That is amazing, your grandparents would be so disappointed with the current condition of California. Same thing is happening in Chicago, my grandparents lived on the south side, my grandfather was an amazing guy- he became significantly wealthy as an executive at Standard Oil, serving as treasurer and later worldwide logistics/international regulations. He could have raised his family anywhere but south Chicago was a wonderful place, it is almost unrecognizable in its present state.

The Democrat party is a product of its doners and the institutions who dictate the culture. In this case woke culture. The poison runs a lot deeper than a political party.

So you don't think the people who attacked and trashed the Capitol on 1/6/21 are a threat? They literally wanted to overthrow the government and hang Mike Pence. You need a brain transplant.

And while I hate to agree with you, I do. I left the D party because it changed so much. My politics didn't really change, at heart I'm still a 1990s style liberal, but this new woke D party .... it is unrecognizable to me, especially the anti-semitism that comes out of it (namely, The Squad) that never ever gets condemned. I remember in the 1980s when Jew-hater David Duke called himself a R. The R party stood up to him and publically denounced him. The D party has failed to to this with the likes of Ilan Omer and her crew if haters. WTF is wrong with these people?

👉 Washington St Is Sooo Bad!👈

Hope Everyone will SHARE this video to Everyone they know!! TRUE Education is what can help save our country!! USA USA USA.

More like a mumbling malcontent using bitterness as a platform for his hatreds.

All the dead ones and non English speaking for sure.

Imagine the country poor like Arkansas or Mississippi. Republicans utopia!! 😂🤣😂🤣

@@bidencrimefamilymottof-cky953👌👍💯 true

They hate conservatives and it's ideology so much they'll vote for death.

blame the election fraud that put awful people into office. Newsom could win. So could Michelle Obama. Beause the Dems can control the outcomes of elections.

Agree 100%. I retired and moved out of California. Because I couldn’t afford to retire in California.

Although the poverty rate is higher in districts represented by Democrats, most poor people in the United States live in a community represented by a Republican. Taken together, the poverty rate in districts represented by Democrats in 2016 (“blue” districts) was 17.1 percent in 2010-14 compared with 14.4 percent in those represented by Republicans (“red” districts). But Republican districts have more poor residents overall: 25.1 million poor people lived in red districts in 2010-14 compared with 22.7 million in blue districts. The problem is outside of political governance. It’s cyclical decline through corruption and fiscal mismanagement and yes, governance/policies.

Hahhahaahahahhahah……it will happen….as long as the machines can be hacked.

You communist in California have what's coming to you this is what you get for voting BIDEN

They will cheat him in, just like biden

Direct consequences of woke ideology. Dear Californians you voted for it, so just suck it up.

Not!

Our criminally indicted 45 is your guy huh?

That is great. I hate when the employees ignore me and talk among themselves in Spanish.

Yeah, and the earthquake shook shit up as well 😂

I hear a lot of Americans wishing to leave this Country, me being one of them. Congrats to you !

Some say we are the last place to go and at one point we were, sadly not so much anymore so long as our foundational laws are ignored. The drug problem is so bad right now I'm thinking of leaving. The condition of the average American rich or poor is a shit show of stress and complaining.

Don't let Donnie's trashing of CA and America brainwash you into having an excuse you left here, because you know that was a mistake and you miss America.

Just out of curiosity, were do hang you're hat now.

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