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America’s First Third-World State
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/ ... structure/

Medieval diseases, gangs, corruption, crime, crumbling infrastructure, out-of-touch wealthy elites …

‘Third World” is now an anachronistic geographical term of the old Cold War. But after 1989, “Third World” was reinvented from a political noun into an adjective to mean more than just Asian, African, and Latin American nations nonaligned with either the West or the Soviet bloc.

Rather, the current modifier “Third World” has come to transcend geography, politics, and ethnicity. It simply denotes poor failed states all over the globe of all races and religions.

Third World symptomologies are predictably corrupt government, unequal or nonexistent applicability of the law, two rather than three classes, and the return of medieval diseases. Third World nations suffer from high taxes and poor social services, premodern infrastructure and utilities, poor transportation, tribalism, gangs, and lack of security.

Another chief characteristic of a Third World society is the official denial of all of the above, and a vindictive, almost hysterical state response to anyone who points out those obvious tragedies. Another is massive out-migration. Residents prefer almost any country other than their own. Think Somalia, Venezuela, Cuba, Libya, or Guatemala.

Does 21st-century California increasingly fit that definition — despite having the nation’s most amenable climate and most beautiful and diverse geography, with major natural ports facing the dynamic Asian economies, and being naturally rich in timber, agriculture, mining, and energy, and blessed with a prior century’s inheritance of effective local and state government?

The Classicist: Third-World California
interview with Victor Davis Hanson via The Classicist
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
How the Golden State lost its luster.
Victor Davis Hanson explores the factors driving the social, economic, and political decline of California.

Montegriffo wrote: Sun May 19, 2019 2:12 am Lead fishing weights were a bad idea. We got rid of them 40 years ago.
Europe has tight regulations against using shot with lead near water.

Should be carbon free, sustainable, biodegradable and organic shot IMO.

C-Mag wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2019 4:16 pm

Montegriffo wrote: Sun May 19, 2019 2:12 am Lead fishing weights were a bad idea. We got rid of them 40 years ago.
Europe has tight regulations against using shot with lead near water.

Should be carbon free, sustainable, biodegradable and organic shot IMO.

Fishing lures in the UK

Hastur wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 4:03 am NRA officially branded a ‘domestic terrorist organization’ in San Francisco.