California has “banned’ state-funded travel to ten US states. That’s right ten states. South Carolina is the latest winner in this progressive Left Coast Lotto. And wait until you hear what triggered them this time.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Tuesday added South Carolina to the growing list of states banned from state-sponsored travel, citing the Palmetto State’s 2018 budget bill allowing faith-based adoption and foster-care services to operate according to their religious beliefs.
“The State of South Carolina recently enacted a measure that sanctions discrimination against families in the placement of children in need of homes,” said Mr. Becerra in a statement. “The State of California stands strongly against any form of discrimination.”
Because California believes using government force against people based on their religious beliefs is not discrimination. To them, it’s not even unconstitutional.
I don’t think South Carolina cares. Neither does Alabama, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, nor Tennessee, and Texas.
Georgia’s turn is coming soon. The Governor is signing an abortion heartbeat ban bill. California won’t like that.
I’m sure they think these “travel bans” are protecting their State from us, it’s really the other way around.
California Should Build a wall
Not between Mexico and California. Between California and the rest of America. To keep the people whose lives they are controlling from an easy escape. Venezuela closed its border years ago. Berlin, the most famous example, had a wall to keep people in.
Make it part of the California Green New Deal. The federal version bans most air travel and handicaps ground transportation. If you plan to prohibit travel to ten states why not the other 37 contiguous states? All travel in California will be state-funded soon enough.
Since you like to think you are world leaders in progressive thinking get out in front of this and lead by example.
Embrace the Green New Deal today. Someone has to do it and it won’t be Hawaii. (Without air travel, it’s nothing more than a gated community for ruling class elites waiting for the next paddle-boatload of supplies).
When Green is Brown
California under Jerry Brown pushed plastic bans because of ocean debris but over 90% of that comes from southeast Asia. Banning straws in New Hampshire will only drive up costs and inconvenience for Granite Staters. If Zero-impact policy is the goal congratulations. These will have no effect on the so-called problem while creating bigger ones.
California has a boatload of these laws – none of which do anything but make living in California harder to do. More expensive. Less convenient.
California also has a failed progressive foreign policy (open-borders) that has heralded the return of medieval plagues to its cities. Welfare is stressed, and the left-coast is a leader in homelessness. Like any true socialist ‘nation’ California is descending into a two-class system.
The rest of America looks awfully appealing when that happens. How will you keep your residents from leaving?
Build the wall.
But be warned California. Refusing to provide a sustainable five-lane super-bike path eastward won’t keep people from looking that way. As your decline into Democrat Socialism continues you’ll have to erect a barrier to keep your tax slaves in-country. Walls, wire, checkpoints, travel bans, border patrol, travel documents. In the People’s Republic of New York, they intimidate their would-be defectors with the threat of financial audits. What amounts to a massive exit tax that only the truly rich can afford.
For everyone else, walls work.
