{"id":10293,"date":"2009-10-17T23:42:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T23:42:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-17T23:42:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T23:42:13","slug":"how-to-revive-a-failed-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/17\/how-to-revive-a-failed-state\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Revive A Failed State"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks back the Guardian’s Sunday paper, the Observer, published a long article titled Will California become America’s first failed state?<\/a> It was one of their most widely read and emailed articles that week, and generated a lot of responses. One of them was mine here at Calitics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Guardian wanted a response to their article for their Comment is Free<\/a> section of the website, and asked me to write it. The result is now available: From Golden State to failed state<\/a>. <\/p>\n

With a 700-word limit it was difficult to be more expansive than I could here at Calitics. But my article makes the basic points: the 20th century model of California, emphasizing sprawl and weighing government down with absurd, non-functional rules designed to protect that sprawl, have produced “a California that more closely resembles the world of Charles Dickens than that of the Beach Boys.”<\/p>\n

We need to craft a new vision of the California Dream for the 21st century<\/a>. Go read the article<\/a> to see what that would look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks back the Guardian’s Sunday paper, the Observer, published a long article titled Will California become America’s first failed state?<\/a> It was one of their most widely read and emailed articles that week, and generated a lot of responses. One of them was mine here at Calitics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Guardian wanted a response to their article for their Comment is Free<\/a> section of the website, and asked me to write it. The result is now available: From Golden State to failed state<\/a>. <\/p>\n

With a 700-word limit it was difficult to be more expansive than I could here at Calitics. But my article makes the basic points: the 20th century model of California, emphasizing sprawl and weighing government down with absurd, non-functional rules designed to protect that sprawl, have produced “a California that more closely resembles the world of Charles Dickens than that of the Beach Boys.”<\/p>\n

We need to craft a new vision of the California Dream for the 21st century<\/a>. Go read the article<\/a> to see what that would look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-87"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2G1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}