The Soviet state of California

In the waning years of the Soviet Union, most of the citizens in that cold tyranny could see that their system was irredeemably broken. But for the most part, they marched through the same routines, repeated the same slogans, and lived their lives as if it could not be changed. The commissars were in power, the poor were under control, and what was left of the middle class was mired in dysfunction, and, at times, despair.The system, however, was not unbreakable. The accumulation of corruption over the 20th century placed enormous pressure on the state.And brave individuals who overcame their fear of punishment began to tell the truth.

In time, the Soviet Empire would fall.There is a similar dynamic happening now in the state of California. The Golden State was founded on the dream of the infinite frontier and the desire to build a civilization at the edge of the American continent.Now, the state is weighed down with enormous corruption. The commissar class, which has insinuated itself within the governing institutions, has accumulated enormous power and stripped middle-class Californians of their freedom, their income, and, at times, their ability to discern truth from falsehood.California Post News: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, WhatsApp, LinkedInCalifornia Post Sports Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, XCalifornia Post Opinion California Post Newsletters: Sign up here!California Post App: Download here!Page Six Hollywood: Sign up here!The problems in California are well known: unsustainable finances, endemic fraud, chronic homelessness, union corruption, DEI racialism, unchecked crime, and a web of NGOs that siphon taxpayer money toward partisan ends. And yet the existing media, from The San Francisco Chronicle to The Los Angeles Times, seems to have gone to great lengths to obscure these basic realities. They have been captured by the same ideological fervors as the governing institutions and, in effect, become propaganda outlets for Calif...