{"id":1121096,"date":"2021-12-15T10:14:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T15:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1121096"},"modified":"2021-12-15T10:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T15:14:42","slug":"the-death-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-death-of-california\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death Of California"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-death-of-california%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1121096&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In <em>The Hunchback of Notre Dame<\/em>, Victor Hugo told the tale of Esmerelda, a gypsy dancer falsely accused of attempted murder, set to be hanged by an unjust state. Quasimodo, the titular hunchback, swings down from the cathedral of Notre Dame and saves her, carrying her off while crying \u201cSanctuary!\u201d In fact, throughout European history, churches provided places of safe haven for accused criminals; the claim of \u201csanctuary\u201d is made to this day by people seeking refuge from the law.<\/p>\n<p>It is strange, however, to see the language of sanctuary adopted to protect precisely the sort of activity abhorred by anyone of religious bent: abortion. The secular sacrament of abortion has become so sacred, however, that the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, recently announced his intent to make his state the first abortion sanctuary in the nation. \u201cWe\u2019ll be a sanctuary,\u201d Newsom announced. \u201cWe are looking at ways to support that inevitability and looking at ways to expand our protections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The State of California, according to Newsom\u2019s Democratic legislative allies, could provide travel expenses including gas, lodging, transportation and child care for those seeking to kill their unborn children. Already, some 15 percent of America\u2019s abortions occur in California, according to the Guttmacher Institute. That number would skyrocket in the event that the state began subsidizing abortions across the land.<\/p>\n<p>None of this is particularly surprising. It is telling, however, that as California sinks into the mire, it embraces ever more radical social policy. This is a state that currently houses \u2013 no pun intended \u2013 some 162,000 homeless people, increasing approximately 24 percent from 2018 to 2020. About a quarter of all homeless people in the United States currently reside in California.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, crime in California has become endemic, with smash-and-grabs roiling major cities and even wealthy residents murdered in their homes. This week, the head of the Los Angeles police union, Jamie McBride, warned people to stay out of the city, explaining, \u201cWe can\u2019t guarantee your safety. It is really, really out of control.\u201d Even former LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa laments, \u201cRome is burning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And California\u2019s economy trails the nation\u2019s, too. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, California is tied for the worst unemployment rate in the nation, at 7.3 percent. And while California is currently experiencing a seven-day rolling average of just 67 covid deaths \u2013 compared with 550 at the height of the pandemic \u2013 Governor Newsom recently reimposed another monthlong statewide indoor mask mandate.<\/p>\n<p>So why does California keep embracing ever-more-radical policy? Because the radicalism is itself the moral justification for policy failure. Sure, Democrats can argue, crime and homelessness are out of control, the economy is stagnating, and businesses are leaving. But that\u2019s morally excusable, since California seeks a higher purpose: the purpose of Leftist utopianism. Thus, Newsom has little to say about California\u2019s stagnation, but much to say about how California will push new laws targeting gun ownership.<\/p>\n<p>For years, Democrats have claimed that California leads the nation. We can only hope they\u2019re wrong.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo told the tale of Esmerelda, a gypsy dancer falsely accused of attempted murder, set to be hanged by an unjust state. Quasimodo, the titular hunchback, swings down from the cathedral of Notre Dame and saves her, carrying her off while crying \u201cSanctuary!\u201d In fact, throughout European history, churches provided places of safe haven for accused criminals; the claim of \u201csanctuary\u201d is made to this day by people seeking refuge from the law.It is strange, however, to see the language of sanctuary adopted to protect precisely the sort of activity abhorred by anyone of religious bent: abortion. The secular sacrament of abortion has become so sacred, however, that the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, recently announced his intent to make his state the first abortion sanctuary in the nation. \u201cWe\u2019ll be a sanctuary,\u201d Newsom announced. \u201cWe are looking at ways to support that inevitability and looking at ways to expand our protections.\u201dThe State of California, according to Newsom\u2019s Democratic legislative allies, could provide travel expenses including gas, lodging, transportation and child care for those seeking to kill their unborn children. Already, some 15 percent of America\u2019s abortions occur in California, according to the Guttmacher Institute. That number would skyrocket in the event that the state began subsidizing abortions across the land.None of this is particularly surprising. It is telling, however, that as California sinks into the mire, it embraces ever more radical social policy. This is a state that currently houses \u2013 no pun intended \u2013 some 162,000 homeless people, increasing approximately 24 percent from 2018 to 2020. About a quarter of all homeless people in the United States currently reside in California.Meanwhile, crime in California has become endemic, with smash-and-grabs roiling major cities and even wealthy residents murdered in their homes. This week, the head of the Los Angeles police union, Jamie McBride, warned people to stay out of the city, explaining, \u201cWe can\u2019t guarantee your safety. It is really, really out of control.\u201d Even former LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa laments, \u201cRome is burning.\u201dAnd California\u2019s economy trails the nation\u2019s, too. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, California is tied for the worst unemployment rate in the nation, at 7.3 percent. And while California is currently experiencing a seven-day rolling average of just 67 covid deaths \u2013 compared with 550 at the height of the pandemic \u2013 Governor Newsom recently reimposed another monthlong statewide indoor mask mandate.So why does California keep embracing ever-more-radical policy? Because the radicalism is itself the moral justification for policy failure. Sure, Democrats can argue, crime and homelessness are out of control, the economy is stagnating, and businesses are leaving. But that\u2019s morally excusable, since California seeks a higher purpose: the purpose of Leftist utopianism. Thus, Newsom has little to say about California\u2019s stagnation, but much to say about how California will push new laws targeting gun ownership.For years, Democrats have claimed that California leads the nation. We can only hope they\u2019re wrong.The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":1893938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}