Bloomberg Said Leftist Disaster California ‘Can Serve as a Great Example’ for US

Bloomberg Reveals His Horrible Template for Re-Making America

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By C. Douglas Golden

Published February 15, 2020 at 11:49am

I wonder if there’s a different version of California for liberals — an alternate universe version where everything is working smoothly.

Maybe they don’t see the troubled part.

After all, most of what out-of-state politicians see is swanky affairs at homes in the Hollywood Hills or in the better neighborhoods of Silicon Valley — the kind of shindigs like the scene at the beginning of “Bullitt” where the supercilious senator played by Robert Vaughn first meets Steve McQueen’s character.

Michael Bloomberg is the second major politician I’ve seen talk about how wonderful the Golden State is recently.

Granted, the most recent was its Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, who went on “The View” and basically told us all how his state was some sort of template of how a post-Donald Trump America should look.

In January, we had the specter of Bloomberg telling us how California “can serve as a great example” to the rest of America.

Bloomberg is a guy who normally wouldn’t need to be talking up the Golden State.

He’s the former mayor of New York City, a metropolis where the residents look down on California as a land for those with an unserious mindset, a people who have managed to somehow combine slacking and striving into the same general ethos.

There are two reasons why Bloomberg is suddenly putting forth a failing state as the kind of place that can set an example for all of us.

First, as per his Super Tuesday blitz strategy, he desperately needs to win and win big in California. If he doesn’t, I hope he kept his receipts for his presidential run.

Second, some of the failed policies that California is fond of? Bloomberg’s actually pretty fond of them, too.

“I think that California can serve as a great example for the rest of this country,” Bloomberg said at the opening of his campaign headquarters in Los Angeles last month, according to the California Globe, adding that it’s “something the rest of the country looks up to.”

We do?

Well, Bloomberg did mention the whole housing crisis thing and the fact the state’s homelessness is out of control, “as well as other issues California is currently trying to solve,” the Globe said. (If he listed those other issues, the speech would be ongoing.)

But then there’s the reason why he thinks California is doing quite well for itself: “Bloomberg noted that California’s efforts on climate change, gun control, and criminal justice reform were second to none, and that the rest of the nation should follow their lead,” the Globe reported.

Ah yes, there we go. California, a state that has a prohibitively high cost of living and wants to get to 60 percent clean energy usage by 2030 and 100 percent clean usage by 2045, according to Quartz, something I’m sure won’t have a negative effect on the the state’s electricity costs.

As for gun control, yes, the state constantly tests the limits of its least favorite amendment repeatedly. Much of this change has been goaded on, mind you, by Bloomberg-astroturfed groups like Everytown for Gun Safety.

As for criminal justice reform, let me point out that this is a state where a Democrat is currently proposing a bill under which offenders under the age of 20 could be charged as juveniles.

This’ll all play very well in California, mind you.

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