Gavin Newsom’s Potemkin Village
Gavin Newsom was Mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011and has been Governor of California since 2019. Over that time period it is fair to say that California, the once Golden State, has become a living nightmare for anyone who is neither extremely rich or on the Government payroll. It is also fair to say that Newsom has been more responsible for its decline than any other human being.
Over the past three years something like a million people have left California, many for Florida. The exodus continues. The people leaving are the best: business people, investors, high earners. About the only people relocating to California now are some of the countless illegal immigrants the Biden Administration has enticed into the country. Them and the President of China, although Xi Jinping will not be staying for long.
In honour of his visit to San Fran-Sicko (as Michael Shellenberger calls it), the homeless, the drug addicts, and the other undesirables have been swept off the streets; suddenly they are nowhere to be seen, and the sidewalks are pristine. How has this come about? Who knows? Newsom appears simply to have waved his magic wand and they are no more. Until the Chinese delegation leaves, of course.
China has a homeless problem too, although unlike Newsom’s sleight-of-hand it is well concealed all the time, but if you visit certain YouTube channels you can see its lost souls for yourself.
Homelessness is complex, it isn’t a single problem. Every nation on Earth has a small group of people – overwhelmingly older men – who fall to the bottom of the barrel for various reasons. For some it is alcohol and/or drug abuse – not usually a problem in Islamic countries. For others it is so-called mental health issues. In San Francisco, Los Angeles, and any other largely Democrat bailiwicks it is all those and more, in particular young people of both sexes reduced to penury or oblivion, and most tragically, young families. These latter are often dumped in crowded cheap motels on the Government dime or in homeless shelters. Some even end up sleeping in their cars.
These conditions have been brought about deliberately, the Democrats are wilfully destroying America in this and a hundred other ways. Their insane policies of open borders, the rampant inflation, the war on energy, their police state tactics, their secret gun registry, their harassment and outright persecution of Trump supporters, of less extreme conservatives, as well as their blatant financial corruption, none of this is accidental. So what do they hope to replace it with? How about a plain, old-fashioned dictatorship? Unless Donald Trump or some other conservative can take back the White House next year, the game will be up. If you don’t believe that to be the case, look at what Newsom has done to first San Francisco, then California, and ask yourself what he would do to America if he should succeed Joe Biden.