I’m not sure why people aren’t lined up 3 miles deep trying to get out of this country.
This article makes the not-very-surprising conclusion that the California so-called energy crisis was simply an attempt by connected-to-the-B*sh-junta Evil Party apparatchiks to loot the public purse. yelladog thinks this is terrifying; A decade ago, I would have thought it terrifying, but these days it's hard for me to work up the enthusiasm to even care. Do you think that Cassandra spent her entire life in the throes of despair, watching doom getting closer and closer while everyone around her laughed off her warnings, or do you think that occasionally she just said "told you so!" and just watched everything fall apart with the sort of black amusement only the damned can have?
Remember, the Coward in Chief has had his (gotten in the traditional way; bribes, intimidation, and outright theft) "accountability moment", so (close enough to a) majority of the electorate in the United States wants to be treated like dirt by the gilded classes, and the rest of the electorate is still clapping their heels together and hoping that the chant of "there's no place like home" will get rid of the engines of tyranny which are busily destroying the United States of America.
Well, it's like alcoholism; the addict won't stop destroying themself until they hit bottom, and trying to fix things just makes the wreck worse. And unfortunately the bottom for the United States will be one of two choices; Venezuela (a third-rate power with a gilded upper class and huge slums), or our cities in rubble, our capital occupied, and our leaders hanged. Clapping your heels together won't help with either of those alternatives.