By
Michael Walsh
March 11, 2017
As leaders of the "Resistance,"
America's declining newspapers see their jobs as educating ignorant
Americans about the dangers of That Man in the White House. Case in point, this piece in the Los Angeles Times. Ostensibly,
it's about the poor turnout (anybody surprised, given L.A.'s electoral
makeup?) in the recent municipal elections -- but, of course, it's about
you know who...
Los Angeles County had a dismal turnout rate in the March 7 election, the first chance for voters to express themselves at the ballot box since Donald Trump’s stunning victory. People here seem more political than in the past — they go to a lot of protests and town halls, and they fill their social media accounts with anti- GOP screeds. But less than 12% of eligible voters showed up. ...Maybe that's also because Los Angeles is a one-state country, and California is a one-party state, whose voters are either very wealthy residents of coastal enclaves, and therefore protected from the consequences of their own votes, or the seething poor, many of them illegals, living east of Western Avenue. It's an unstable coalition at best, and one that will eventually collapse along with the blue-state model and its potholed roads, failing dams, trains to nowhere and lack of fresh water and arable land. ...
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