California sits at the intersection of two extremes. On one end is a population of extremely smart, capable Californians that have helped build the 4th largest economy in the world. At the other end sits the same extremely smart, capable population but who have turned their brains off and have elected, year after year for decades, a group of incompetent and corrupt politicians that have hijacked the governance of the state. In lockstep, the finances, pensions and livability of California erodes every day: the fire hydrants are empty, the drug addicts get free drugs, the alcoholics get free beer, the criminals get “get out of jail free” cards, the average grades of students are falling off a cliff, you can’t build homes for normal people but you can pretend to build them for the homeless and get taxpayers to foot the bill, you can’t improve health care subsidies unless they are for illegal immigrants, you don’t want to tell the truth about exploding pensions so you change how you report about them to hide the time bomb. And on and on. The everyday citizens that make California great needs to wake up to the fact that their apathy has created this chaos and we must change direction to undo it.
