Do you remember four years ago an article describing the 2016 election as the “Flight 93 election?” The then-pseudonymous author turned out to be Michael Anton who has the uncanny ability to write about things in an apocalyptic fashion. Now he’s at it again.
RealClearBooks runs an excerpt from Anton’s recent The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return. This excerpt concerns the state of disintegration and dysfunction in modern California.
You think Victor Davis Hanson has been downbeat about California? Anton is like Hanson on steroids, and the sad thing is he doesn’t exaggerate all that much. The insanity he describes is really happening here.
If you are fortunate enough to live elsewhere, view this article as a cautionary tale. It’s a disturbing picture of what not to do where you live. Nobody has ever done “Don’t Californicate (fill in the blank)” any better.
Anton writes powerful stuff, and it comes at you like an avalanche. He gives CA the same treatment Dante gave Hell, he richly embroiders its horrors. I just finished reading it and I - a normally even-keel fellow - am depressed.
