California Becomes What Mexico Was

COTTonLINE's favorite demographer, Joel Kotkin, writes about his home state, California, for New Geography. His focus is upon its evolution into one-party rule, and the deleterious effects thereof. Kotkin compares today's CA with yesteryear's Mexico:

Forty years ago, Mexico was a one-party dictatorship under the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, hobbled by slow growth, soaring inequality, endemic corruption and dead politics. California, in contrast, was considered a model American state, with a highly regarded Legislature, relatively clean politics, a competitive political process and a soaring economy. Today these roles are somewhat reversed, and not in a good way for the Golden State.

Let’s be frank. California’s democracy is fading, the result of one-party politics, a weak media culture and a sense among many that politicians in Sacramento (or city hall) will do whatever they please once in office. As under the old PRI in Mexico, a lack of competitive politics has also bred the kind of endemic corruption with which California, in recent decades, was not widely associated.

CA's Democrat Party is basically a wholly-owned subsidiary of the public employee unions. You know that cannot be good.