The Los Angeles Times Versus Larry Elder
I used to think this was merely propaganda for that self-destructive desire to preserve victim status forever. But last night, watching cable news, I came to the realization that a system really does exist, though not in the way Ms. Smith imagines or fits with her convenient, basically tribalist (all that talk of skin folk ), world view.
I was watching video of the ritzy fundraiser given by Nancy Pelosi in the Napa Valley. There, what the NY Post called hordes of partygoer/donors (I have no way of knowing the exact count, but a lot), almost all of them certainly at least millionaires given the steep cost of entry, all that I could see white, all maskless, were being served close to the best food and wine in the world by the help (i.e., minorities in masks).
What Ms. Smith misses here, and to a great extent also most of the reporters and editors at the Los Angeles Times, not to mention the Sacramento Bee, the CAL Matters Editorial Board, and most of the rest of the self-replicating California media claque, is that they are being mocked by these people.
Journalists are the lower classes to Pelosi s crowd, essentially in their employ. The salaries of LAT journalists probably the best in the state for print are available online and fall in the $100k range, the very number that makes it difficult to live a decent middle-class life in California now and has inspired so many to leave the state, their first population outflow ever.
They and the rest of the populace are indeed victims of a system that runs like this: The very rich with Silicon Valley moguls at the top of the whole world essentially buy Papal indulgences by mouthing off with progressive rhetoric as much as possible and donating to their ultra-rich colleagues in the Democratic Party leadership like Pelosi and Newsom to keep the system in place.
Meanwhile the very rich get richer and richer, beyond the level of anything that has happened in all human history.
At the same time, the California middle class basically disappears and the poor are given breadcrumbs so they don t complain. They are left to deal with San Francisco turned into a sewer, a wretched public school system preaching Critical Race Theory to seven-year-olds (consider how troubled and confused the schools are, telling the state s many and growing mixed-race children that race, above all, determines their identity and future talk about child abuse), decayed infrastructure, endless forest fires, the highest taxes in the country (save New York), and once-gorgeous beaches strewn with syringes.
And along comes Larry Elder to throw a monkey wrench in this moribund system. Everyone should.