Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Why California Has So Many Problems" video.

  1. Yet California's critics conveniently ignore how captured its politics are by wealthy conservatives.
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  2. California has been leading America's trends basically since it entered the Union, the American Dream spearheaded by the California Dream. That's why it's America's America.
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  3. Blocked by rich conservatives.
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  4. Blocked by rich conservatives.
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  5. More like the cartel of rich incumbent property owners.
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  6. Yet one of the biggest issues is its tax revenues get sent to other states who then send in their homeless, and there's no immigration barrier like a sovereign nation would be allowed to set up.
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  7. Should have chosen better parents.
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  8. Ironically that calls for a more centralized republic at the cost of local government power, against the traditional interests of local autonomy and States' Rights. But larger centralized power is what societies globally have been converging on since industrialization.
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  9. They're easily blocked by rich conservatives who effectively have a cartel on the policies of entire cities.
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  10. NIMBYs are the ones forcing the policies to fail, and are conservative by definition -- they fight against change because their local political cartel benefits at the expense of larger interests.
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  11. Blocked by local cartels of rich conservatives who dominate the small cities that make up the state's metropolises. California is a lot more Red than most outsiders realize, especially in the implementation or protest of statewide policies.
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  12. Probably because we exhausted the carrying capacity of that pre-internet "paradise", paying for further expansion of those old designs with higher living costs instead of getting more efficient in the spaces we already had.
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  13. Yet the video basically says it's all those local governments (captured by cartels of NIMBYs) that are the biggest obstacle to better governance.
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  14. Yet high-density homes and public transit are what wealthy conservatives fight against and they seem to be winning and pleased.
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