There is a bit of folk wisdom circulating online and elsewhere that generally goes by the name “Pottery Barn rule” and is attributed to former DOD Secretary Colin Powell. It states “if you broke it, you own it” meaning the fault is yours and you pay for the now-worthless broken item.
Seeing this report of Sen. Schiff (D-CA) complaining that CA Democrats need to deal with the state’s manifold problems suggests he has been Pottery Barned. Democrats have had sole control of CA politics for fourteen years, which is plenty long enough to support the claim that whatever the state now experiences - good and bad - is theirs to own.
The state suffers from runaway homelessness, wildfires, poor schools, neglected infrastructure, overregulation, and sky high taxes. If CA doesn’t top the lists of bad places to do business, it comes close.
The result is human outmigration sufficient to cost CA several House seats. And it is losing corporate headquarters too.
As they say in the Navy, it all happened on the Democrats’ watch. They ‘broke’ it and they have to take the rap for neither preventing the breakage nor fixing the problems. I wish them the joy of gluing the pieces back together.
