Victor Davis Hanson, the conservative professor-farmer-writer, recently traveled around the agricultural area of California where he lives and wrote a powerful essay about what he saw and experienced. His descriptions remind me of a scene in one of the “Back to the Future” movies where America’s cities have degenerated into vast slums. He concluded that California “is a sort of social, cultural, economic, and political time-bomb, whose ticks are getting louder.”
The conventional wisdom is that “It happens in California first and then the rest of the country.” God help us. A fascinating and worthwhile read: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/255320/two-californias-victor-davis-hanson
