Even people of color in South Africa admit that life was better under apartheid. Winnie Mandela was a communist terrorist. Now they are deporting foreigners after recent riots. Before South Africa, Rhodesia fell to Mugabe and racialist socialism. Sam Power documented its fall in a piece called “How to Kill a Country” for The Atlantic - quite the combination of author, title, and publication to be admitting the failures of leftist policies they promote to this day: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-kill-a-country-zimbabwe-mugabe-decolonize
The most interesting part about this is that it still won't make a difference. Even if all this is implemented the goal posts will be moved and there will be more grievances. It's a perpetual ax to grind.
It has been instructive to listen to the people from South Africa who came to the FIFA World Cup in the US. They are amazed to see women walking the street with purses unafraid. One was looking down an alley between homes in DC and saying you couldn't walk down such an alley in South Africa because you would have your throat cut. Our Christian foundation has saved this country in so many ways, and that despite our flaws we are still the most blessed country of all the world.
California is tying its own noose with the equity rope — and the legs are already starting to twitch.
This City Journal piece by Rufo and Thorpe lays it out plainly: the Golden State is deliberately importing the post-apartheid South African model of racial redistribution and identity-based governance. What began as “addressing disparities” has metastasized into a whole-of-government racialist project — from Newsom’s Executive Order on equity, to the Ethnic Studies curriculum pushing Marxist “decolonization” and Aztec chants in classrooms, to the massive reparations task force demanding hundreds of billions in race-based payouts.
They’re not even pretending anymore. California Democrats are openly arguing that equal treatment under the law is insufficient. They want different rules, different resources, and different outcomes based explicitly on race. Sound familiar? It’s the same logic that turned South Africa from a functional (if flawed) nation into one plagued by rolling blackouts, rampant corruption, farm seizures, and violent crime.
California was once the land of opportunity that drew people from all over the world with the promise of merit, hard work, and color-blind law. Now the ruling class is systematically replacing that with racial score-settling and grievance. The results are already visible: businesses and productive citizens fleeing in record numbers, failing schools prioritizing ideology over reading and math, skyrocketing costs, and a permanent bureaucracy whose sole mission is to manage racial outcomes rather than deliver results for all citizens.
This isn’t compassion. It’s the same poisonous ideology that wrecked South Africa — just dressed up in California progressive language. Once you make race the central organizing principle of government, you don’t get utopia. You get decline, division, and eventual collapse.
California chose this path. Now they’re hanging on the equity rope they tied themselves. The kicking hasn’t stopped yet, but gravity is doing its work.
As you stated destroying the sometime prosperity of California and implementing all the anti white racist equity laws possible, handing out reparations to every person possible will not change outcomes or afford those minorities any better life. It has zero to do with money or equity.
So explain how a truly dysfunctional incompetent like Newsome is a serious candidate for President, or any Democrat for that matter?
Even harder to explain is why the horrific gatekeepers of CNN and the NYT do not devote any of journalistic capacity to exposing this , and other examples, of Democratic dysfunction.
Trump may be venal , chaotic , morally challenged and economically erratic but relative to any Democratic alternative he still is preferable to any rational citizen.
Okay, there are racial disparities. But libs think the cause must be racism. How about single-parent households, bad culture, etc? So, instead of lifting everyone up, they lower everyone down. Including those they claim to help. Just a bunch of stupid, hateful grifters - blaming whitey in their ongoing inability to get redemption, if you ask me. 🤷♂️
100% of these policies fail. Even more importantly, they ignore the modern roots of the problem: poor public schools, teachers who don’t teach the basics, and parents who don’t demand that their children be taught and that their own children learn. If we had done all that back in the sixties, we wouldn’t have these disparities. Just look at what those groups who are successful do (despite often massive discrimination) and copy their playbook. It works. It’s never too late to start.
“California’s racialist revolutionaries seem incapable of grasping a simple truth: all these heavy-handed policies will not work. No matter how much wealth is seized, no matter how much government spending is redirected to favored racial groups, outcomes in the real world will never look the same as a Census table.”
The correct “simple truth” is that spending money and redistributing wealth are the twin purposes. They are not the means of actually achieving “equity.” Indeed, the worst outcome would be actually achieving equity, for that would undermine the alleged justifications for these policies.
I am one of the Californians who is giving up on this once Golden State. I'll be relocating to Tennessee as soon as my house sells. It seems that almost every day I read about another bill, regulation, insane plan, etc., that makes me want to leave. Even if Hilton is elected in November, we still have all the Marxists in the state houses and they can veto anything he does.
Even people of color in South Africa admit that life was better under apartheid. Winnie Mandela was a communist terrorist. Now they are deporting foreigners after recent riots. Before South Africa, Rhodesia fell to Mugabe and racialist socialism. Sam Power documented its fall in a piece called “How to Kill a Country” for The Atlantic - quite the combination of author, title, and publication to be admitting the failures of leftist policies they promote to this day: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-kill-a-country-zimbabwe-mugabe-decolonize
Also When the Crocodile eats the Sun by Godwin. Zimbabwe.
1/ How odd that belief “it cannot happen here” is no defense.
2/ These policies are spreading across America.
3/ Even as we see these policies inevitable destructive effects, the Left faces little organized opposition.
Heading to Civil War 2.0?
The most interesting part about this is that it still won't make a difference. Even if all this is implemented the goal posts will be moved and there will be more grievances. It's a perpetual ax to grind.
It has been instructive to listen to the people from South Africa who came to the FIFA World Cup in the US. They are amazed to see women walking the street with purses unafraid. One was looking down an alley between homes in DC and saying you couldn't walk down such an alley in South Africa because you would have your throat cut. Our Christian foundation has saved this country in so many ways, and that despite our flaws we are still the most blessed country of all the world.
We need to give all the persecuted people of South Africa asylum. They know how to be productive residents, unlike many.
California is tying its own noose with the equity rope — and the legs are already starting to twitch.
This City Journal piece by Rufo and Thorpe lays it out plainly: the Golden State is deliberately importing the post-apartheid South African model of racial redistribution and identity-based governance. What began as “addressing disparities” has metastasized into a whole-of-government racialist project — from Newsom’s Executive Order on equity, to the Ethnic Studies curriculum pushing Marxist “decolonization” and Aztec chants in classrooms, to the massive reparations task force demanding hundreds of billions in race-based payouts.
They’re not even pretending anymore. California Democrats are openly arguing that equal treatment under the law is insufficient. They want different rules, different resources, and different outcomes based explicitly on race. Sound familiar? It’s the same logic that turned South Africa from a functional (if flawed) nation into one plagued by rolling blackouts, rampant corruption, farm seizures, and violent crime.
California was once the land of opportunity that drew people from all over the world with the promise of merit, hard work, and color-blind law. Now the ruling class is systematically replacing that with racial score-settling and grievance. The results are already visible: businesses and productive citizens fleeing in record numbers, failing schools prioritizing ideology over reading and math, skyrocketing costs, and a permanent bureaucracy whose sole mission is to manage racial outcomes rather than deliver results for all citizens.
This isn’t compassion. It’s the same poisonous ideology that wrecked South Africa — just dressed up in California progressive language. Once you make race the central organizing principle of government, you don’t get utopia. You get decline, division, and eventual collapse.
California chose this path. Now they’re hanging on the equity rope they tied themselves. The kicking hasn’t stopped yet, but gravity is doing its work.
Semper Fi
As you stated destroying the sometime prosperity of California and implementing all the anti white racist equity laws possible, handing out reparations to every person possible will not change outcomes or afford those minorities any better life. It has zero to do with money or equity.
I felt sick reading this
“Not a journalist.”
But see, if you were a Hamas terrorist working for Al Jizzbaga, they would have responded
If any reparations are due they should be paid by the African people that sold other Africans to the slave traders.
Can you give Steve Hilton the tools to hammer this message home during his gubernatorial campaign? People need to be aware of this.
Go Steve!
So explain how a truly dysfunctional incompetent like Newsome is a serious candidate for President, or any Democrat for that matter?
Even harder to explain is why the horrific gatekeepers of CNN and the NYT do not devote any of journalistic capacity to exposing this , and other examples, of Democratic dysfunction.
Trump may be venal , chaotic , morally challenged and economically erratic but relative to any Democratic alternative he still is preferable to any rational citizen.
Okay, there are racial disparities. But libs think the cause must be racism. How about single-parent households, bad culture, etc? So, instead of lifting everyone up, they lower everyone down. Including those they claim to help. Just a bunch of stupid, hateful grifters - blaming whitey in their ongoing inability to get redemption, if you ask me. 🤷♂️
California is a stinking mess and Newsom is a greaseball, dishonest egomaniac. When will Cali voters wise up?
100% of these policies fail. Even more importantly, they ignore the modern roots of the problem: poor public schools, teachers who don’t teach the basics, and parents who don’t demand that their children be taught and that their own children learn. If we had done all that back in the sixties, we wouldn’t have these disparities. Just look at what those groups who are successful do (despite often massive discrimination) and copy their playbook. It works. It’s never too late to start.
Your conclusion is readily falsifiable:
“California’s racialist revolutionaries seem incapable of grasping a simple truth: all these heavy-handed policies will not work. No matter how much wealth is seized, no matter how much government spending is redirected to favored racial groups, outcomes in the real world will never look the same as a Census table.”
The correct “simple truth” is that spending money and redistributing wealth are the twin purposes. They are not the means of actually achieving “equity.” Indeed, the worst outcome would be actually achieving equity, for that would undermine the alleged justifications for these policies.
I am one of the Californians who is giving up on this once Golden State. I'll be relocating to Tennessee as soon as my house sells. It seems that almost every day I read about another bill, regulation, insane plan, etc., that makes me want to leave. Even if Hilton is elected in November, we still have all the Marxists in the state houses and they can veto anything he does.
Stay and fight.
"Racialism"? Why the euphemism? It's racism.