By Dr. Jay Lehr | Jun 27, 2022 @ America Out Loud
Andy Caldwell heads a non-profit Coalition of Labor, Agriculture, and Business (COLAB) which acts as both a government watchdog and promoter of business, agriculture, and labor in Santa Barbara County. As a strong conservative in a very liberal county, he came close to winning the district’s seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020. He has a daily talk radio show on which this author has been proud to appear.
His monthly newsletter COLAB MAGAZINE has been the source of much of this article, where he outlines the growing problems of his once wealthy and beautiful state. They used to call it The Golden State, but no more. Its troubles mount daily with a loss of sanitation in cities and energy across its land. Yet its citizens continue to elect a monolithic liberal government led by Governor Gavin Newsom regardless of his complete ineptitude in managing a once great economy. However, that economy is still rated the 5th largest in the world. Last year Governor Newsom fought off a recall election because the state feared a conservative republican government more than the continued degradation of their once beautiful state.
Andy quoted theologian Paul Tilloch in one of his newsletters who asked,” Is its patriotism or confidence in one’s people, its institutions and its way of life, to be silent when the foundations are shaking? Is the expression of optimism more important than the expression of truth?”
The state is tumbling over three critical issues. First, the human-caused climate change fraud promotes the end of life as we know it if we continue to burn fossil fuels and emit life-giving carbon dioxide, the only reason mankind can inhabit Earth. The governor and the state legislature are impeding further development of oil and gas, closed all coal mines, and left but one nuclear power plant running for a few more years. Second, the Critical Race Theory that is turning citizen against citizen as either oppressed or oppressors, and third is the covid China virus that has disrupted all normal life and many freedoms.
The threat crisis presented by each of these to our social-economic and body politic is being exaggerated for nefarious reasons by the liberal establishment throughout this near monolithic political state.
The remedies prescribed for these state issues are damaging and unnecessary. They do not need to abandon conventional forms of energy, but they are, and they are abandoning constitutional freedoms in order to promote critical race theory and control its citizenry against a poorly understood pandemic. As a result of all this, the once gigantic movement of new folks into California has slowed and then reversed as more and more people. Companies leave the state for sounder economic opportunities, human rights, and personal freedom.
In his Vol 9 Issue 8 newsletter, Caldwell says America is mortally threatened by these issues due to a death of critical thinking skills, abandoned historic values, our compromised institutions of church and state, and an atrophied spirit of faith and freedom.”
Janet Levy, writing in the American Thinker, has outlined how the Marxist revolution in America has manipulated the nation’s culture, especially in sinking California. It is pitifully simple and effective for a population with little critical thinking.
1- Remove principle leadership
2- Encourage the questioning of values and convictions of America
3- Present a revision of past history
4- Cloud the distinction between right and wrong
5- Extoll consensus and collectivism while declaring individualism is dangerous
6- Focus on emotions over facts
7- Foster anxiety, confusion. and social turbulence
8- Conceal the ultimate agenda
9- Use trusted individuals to enhance credibility if they can be conned
10- Use informants to spy on those who do not comply
11- Reward compliance and punish dissent
12- Win public trust by manufacturing chaos
This has been going on in California for decades. In light of it all, it should be surprising that Gavin Newsom held on to the governorship in the recall election last September. A fortune came in from liberal interests all across the country to support his ability to hang on.
In one of Caldwell’s newsletters prior to the recall, he outlined the details of the once but no longer great state in hopes of bringing more voters to their senses. He asked if citizens remembered:
1- when the state had ample water supplies
2- when the state had the best schools
3- when the state had the most wealth
4- when the state had the most beautiful parks, beaches, and downtowns
5- when neighborhoods were widely safe to live in
6- when the state had the best paying jobs
7- when the state had affordable housing
8- when gasoline was affordable
9- when forest fires were under control
10- when all businesses were considered essential
11- when church attendance was promoted, and strip clubs were frowned upon
California, long a leading agriculture state for unknown reasons, now inhibits opportunities for agriculture to expand. Rules against any ag-lands being converted to other use have been implemented. One such absurdity is that the ability to process grapes into wine and sell it on the farm has been restricted.
California ranch lands can only handle so many cows per acre due to recurring droughts, causing a need for outside farm income. The fortunate ones have oil and gas mineral leases, while much of the state is doing everything to shut down these leases. At the same time, industrial-sized solar farms are being allowed on farmland.
Under the new Biden administration, the state has taken a huge inflation hit. According to Americans for Tax REFORM, a Washington DC think tank, in the past 12 months, gasoline has increased 45%, energy 24%, bacon 8%, seafood 6%, milk 7%, fresh fruit 8%, major appliances 14%, furniture, and bedding 9% and a collection of other commodities also 9%.
The one good thing about all the California degradation may be that in every way, it is a negative model for our other 49 states to avoid.
As America transforms back to its roots over these next few elections, we hope California follows suit and once again embraces its golden state status.
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