What About California? Fix It!
The world is full of very complicated problems. How will we ever be able to fix them?
Propaganda is not primarily the art of lying; it is the art of psychological manipulation. It is primarily the art of directing attention. Propaganda ensures that you notice certain aspects of reality and not others.1
— Mattias Desmet
What I learned from Trump’s first term is the things we’ve been told are so hard to fix, so hard to deal with, so mysterious and so complicated—are not. All it takes is someone with the will to do it and some common sense. I remember thinking energy independence must really be complicated, there had to be something I didn’t understand. Guess what? Trump fixed it in six months.
Definitely, though, illegal immigration is massively complicated.
“We’re doing all we can. Trump’s administration really screwed up immigration and we’re all trying to figure it out what we can do to fix it, we’re working really hard….and don’t forget….we’re experts at this.”
In his first term Trump had immigration down even with all the opposition he faced. Illegal immigration is already lower with a Trump presidency on the horizon. I hope we get that wall this time around, I imagine the border patrol is hoping the same thing.
In El Salvador they’re putting violent criminals in jail and guess what? Crime is way down. No way!
In Argentina Milei is cutting bureaucracy and the economy is booming. How can that be?!
Here’s the problem: the powers that be, the globalists, the government elites, pharma companies, big agriculture, the medical industrial complex, the food industrial complex and a host of others DO NOT WANT TO FIX THE PROBLEMS.
The problems are a feature not a bug. They don’t like the common people, us nobodies, except as cash cows.
We don’t hate the government enough.
So I live in Southern California, San Diego County. I’m a native and have lived here all my life except for four years in Arizona, in the Prescott area. I used to be proud to be from California. In my younger days, while at college near the east coast, I loved being able to say I was from San Diego.
Ronald Reagan was our governor at one time and we were a red state, but now we have Gavin Newsom and the distinction of being the woke state that is a model for everyone else. I signed up to listen to Newsom give a pep talk to his dejected, dedicated, anti-Trumpers. I got about halfway through before I turned it off, but in an email after the event Newsom wrote this:
I revere this country. The Institutions. The Presidency. I want our nation to succeed.
But I’m not naive.
Donald Trump has a playbook. They wrote it out for us. 922 pages. With 270 specific points he has publicly supported.
If our American values and freedoms are attacked, we will not stand idly by.
With what I have learned, I’m fairly certain Gavin has no interest in our nation or California succeeding. If he did, he’d fix it. You or I could fix a lot of it if given the chance. Newsom doesn’t want to fix anything.
One bright spot in the California election was Proposition 36, which essentially stops gangs from looting stores (“smash and grab”) with little or no consequences. It won 69% to 31%. Of course the article I read attributed this to money being spent, not people frustrated with the state condoning stealing and driving businesses to either shut down or move elsewhere.
Newsom and the Democrats opposed the bill. Well, of course they did.
It’s interesting that progressives and the Left all refer to Project 2025 as “Trump’s playbook” and always like to mention the 922 pages and 270 points, just to intimidate anyone who might want to look at it. Notice Newsom doesn’t mention what’s in it. It’s just bad. Take his word for it. Take all their words for it.
I have downloaded the 922 pages and have looked at it. After all, I am The Inmate. Here are the “four broad fronts” of the agenda:
Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.
Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.
Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.
Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely—what our Constitution calls “the Blessings of Liberty.”
Pretty terrible! I can now see why everyone is so afraid of it. But this is not Trump’s playbook, Trump’s playbook is Agenda 47 and it’s available for anyone to see on his website. It’s 20 points and would fit on one page, easy and quick to read, which is why Newsom and the rest of them won’t mention it. Most of it, most people, would agree with, another reason the left doesn’t mention it. Here’s a list of Trump’s Agenda 47:
Seal the border and stop the migrant invasion
Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history
End inflation, and make America affordable again
Make America the dominant energy producer in the world, by far!
STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER
Large tax cuts for workers, and no tax on tips!
Defend our constitution, our bill of rights, and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms
Prevent world war three, restore peace in Europe and in the Middle East, and build a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country — all made in America
End the weaponization of government against the American people
Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders
Rebuild our cities, including Washington DC, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again.
Strengthen and modernize our military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world
Keep the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency
Fight for and protect social security and medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age
Cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly and burdensome regulations
Cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children
Keep men out of women’s sports
Deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again
Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship
Unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success
Again, amazing they haven’t thrown Trump in prison based on this alone. This is dictator stuff! I guarantee you no legacy media outlet is going to read these, except for 2, 17 and 18, because they know a lot of the people they have propagandized would agree with most of it and they can’t have any of their base thinking anything good about Trump. Don’t humanize the future dictator of the free world!
So what about California? What about the USA? What about the world? What about the whole screwed up system?
Fix it.
Notes
Desmet, Mattias, "The democratic party coup against Biden.", Mattias Desmet, August 19, 2024, Source
During the Gold Rush, while the essential tools needed were simple—a pick and some initiative—the real difficulty lay in navigating the misinformation and deceit from those who might lead you astray to secure their own fortunes first. “Oh, yeah, I hear that mountain over yonder was the place to dig. No one ever panned in that river successfully.” Saying anything to misdirect the competition. Nothing’s changed in America today, but the competition has become more intense. The stakes are higher, and the levels of poverty are lower. Thus, the propaganda is wall to wall. The NY Times this morning is telling us there is nothing wrong with seed oils RFKJr. is looking to remove from processed foods. Like the Gold Rush, go look over there, and maybe a boulder will fall down a mountain and kill you.
As a lifetime native of the once golden state, I too am amazed at the changes of the past 20-30 years, all propped up on the stilts of propaganda, lies and misdirections.
Just going back a generation or so, the streets were nice, well made, potholes were rare and there were actual street sweepers that came by every week or so. I can remember visiting relatives in San Francisco (the tenderloin district no less) and being able to walk around at night, looking at all the Christmas displays in shop windows and all the boats in the marina district strung with lights.
In the central valley, the air was clear and the sky was usually a brilliant blue. I could hike the Sierras for a week, wildfires were rare and creeks ran most of the year. I grew up walking and riding my bike everywhere without concern, often well past when the streetlights had come on.
It's hard to say what exactly broke this paradise, but the expansion of the unrestricted power of "our betters" (both political, and corporate) has most definitely had catastrophic consequences. Unfortunately too many in our state have become addicted to the synthetic drugs of government and convenience to see their shattered reflections in the mirror.
And yes it is a simple as "shut it off", but someone has to wrestle back the levers of power.