H.L. Mencken penned a very famous quotation: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
There are a number of Democrat run cities which have been abject failures but we are now watching the demise of Los Angeles:
For much of the 20th century, Los Angeles symbolized the future. Over the course of the century, the population grew 40-fold to nearly four million people.
Conditions in LA today are bordering on the medieval. Anyone visiting some of the most famous districts of urban Los Angeles – notably downtown, Hollywood and Venice Beach – sees clear signs of destitution, including sprawling homeless encampments, vast numbers of people living in vehicles and rampant crime. Last year, a UN official compared conditions on LA’s Skid Row, a poor downtown neighbourhood, to those of Syrian refugee camps. Smash-and-grab thefts at local 7-Elevens and the persistent theft of goods from railyards suggest this is a city that has lost control to the modern version of lawless highwaymen.
Incidentally, the current situation in Los Angeles is directly reflective of Gavin Newsom’s policies. Yet it is what he will run on when he attempts to become President one day. The Leftoid Sheeple will mindlessly vote for him but will a majority of Americans?
California was the “place to be” up until 30 years ago. Now Florida is gaining that distinction while California is in a state of civilizational collapse.
My State has never been as economically stratified as it is now … translation: there is virtually NO middle class left in CA. We have become the State of the well-heeled-to-super wealthy and the very, very, poor. And this socioeconomic shift has affected MORE than just LA … my own secure, suburban enclave is seeing more and more burglaries, thefts, strong-arm robberies, and home-invasions than ever in my 55 years of living here.
Why? Because we have a HUGE number of people living in the SF Bay Area who are destitute. Their hopelessness and desperation are driving crime into the suburbs. No, I am not excusing crime because of poverty … but simply observing that conditions here are a MAJOR factor on crime rates. And yet the influx of Spanish-speaking illegals keeps increasing. They used to say that the newest Republican is a Democrat who has been mugged … but that no longer applies here in the totalitarian leftist SF Bay Area … now, victims immediately “forgive” the perpetrator and tell the prosecutor to drop all charges. Hence, more criminals are empowered to commit more crime. It’s getting dangerous. It is starting to feel like the Dark Ages.
Let us see now.
Population of California is 39.56 million (2018)
California State Assembly, the lower house with 80 members.
California State Senate, the upper house with 40 members.
Due to a combination of the state’s large population and a legislature that has not been expanded since the ratification of the 1879 Constitution. California’s assembly members represent 494,228 per representative.
Population of California in 1900 was 1,485,053 people.
The California politicians want it to stay that way, maximum control by a few. It’s not gonna change any time soon.
For comparison, New Hampshire population, 1.38 million (2020).
House of Representatives, 400 members.
Senate 24 members.
Compare that with the population of Canada.
38 million Canadians as of 2022
The House of Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 members known as members of Parliament
The senate chamber’s size is set, at 105 members.
Note the difference in the representation.
Can you see the ‘systemic’ problem?
The HoC has 650 members? You might want to check up on that.
Canada has 338 members in the HoC. The UK has 650.
Of course, both of you are right.
The number seemed to be way out, though that what it said at one place about the parliament.
I do feel silly for agreeing with the 650 number knowing that it was bad.
One correction. the UK house of commons is 650 members, the Canadian one is 338 members, with system that allocates members based on political considerations, reducing the number of seats for Ontario, BC and Alberta, increasing slightly for Quebec, and increasing greatly for the other provinces (PEI being the biggest beneficiary at 1 seat per 35,726 population, versus 1 seat per 119,652 people for Alberta)
The description of LA sounds like what Mark Steyn predicted in ‘America Alone’ (2006) as “somewhere between Mad Max and the Weimar Republic”, the former being the street people of LA and the later, the degenerate ruling class.
Just turn off the water, let it dry up and blow away.
It will soon be time to build a wall around California, in order to contain the disease.
Unfortunately, these bastions of Democrat debauchery are exporters. For example, Chicago’s sanctuary city status got them some bus loads of illegal immigrants courtesy of Texas. Within 22 hours, those buses were moved to the suburbs to a significantly conservative and wealthy area of limited population for resettlement.
The quote by Mencken is obviously false.
People have been opposed to the majority of policies people have forced on us for years. But all parties offer basically the same ideas on a whole range of issues.
And if you disagree with that conclusion, if don`t like how you fucked up your town, you just move.
That`s how Detroit became a black city, and its how California is leaking liberals into blue states.
You also get to avoid what the consequences of your choices are by moving out of your country. Those places that they come from are the way they are because the people are the way they are. Everyone assumes they are the exception.
Ever heard “Dead Los Angeles”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbXdK9c2cAQ