It's Lake County, and anyone north of Babylon-By-The-Bay is painfully familiar with the utter contempt in which Lake County Folks are beheld by Marin and Sonoma county bureaucrats (and many residents of those counties, too.) Newsom shares that contempt and is utterly unconcerned for the lives and livelihoods of those considered entirely expendable. His recent purchase of a Marin County mansion surprised no one; he is at home with his tribe now.
Newsom is an evil man; his pursuit of power over others consumes him utterly. He grinds Californians under his authoritarian bootheel with ill-concealed glee.
The lives already lost mean less than nothing to him and destroying water reservoirs will lead to even greater loss of life. That is of no consequence to Newsom. If Clearlake had a dam, he'd dynamite that, too, laughing all the way to the bank.
Fully agree, Ms. Covello. having observed the evolution of that difference for over five decades, it occurs to me that the resource extraction once conducted as a form of exchange, has come to resemble nothing so much as what we see internationally as "clientism," that pale offshoot of colonialism. Shorn of empty, ahistorical virtue-signalling, the term "colonialism" is arguably applicable in its economic and supervisorial sense.
To be clear; there would have been no logging, ranching or fishing industries without a centralized market for the commodities produced. If you thought me an unrepentant sentimentalist for mourning the decline of those industries, I'd not argue the point, but I watched it closely and the correlation with financialization and elite overproduction is very strong indeed. The consequences of injecting an "outlaw economy" into these regions, has have been far-reaching.
Having only recently been made aware of your most excellent Substack, I'm reminded of some of Bruce Anderson's exposes of the late seventies. Your writings compare favorably and you have the advantage of being an insider working at a remove; it is more difficult to apply pressure because you are not vulnerable to influence in the way that the localized newspapers have been. If you don't like Bruce, please forgive the comparison; I'm only referring to the way he would "upset the apple cart" periodically by "saying the quiet part out loud," back in the day.
It's Lake County, and anyone north of Babylon-By-The-Bay is painfully familiar with the utter contempt in which Lake County Folks are beheld by Marin and Sonoma county bureaucrats (and many residents of those counties, too.) Newsom shares that contempt and is utterly unconcerned for the lives and livelihoods of those considered entirely expendable. His recent purchase of a Marin County mansion surprised no one; he is at home with his tribe now.
Newsom is an evil man; his pursuit of power over others consumes him utterly. He grinds Californians under his authoritarian bootheel with ill-concealed glee.
The lives already lost mean less than nothing to him and destroying water reservoirs will lead to even greater loss of life. That is of no consequence to Newsom. If Clearlake had a dam, he'd dynamite that, too, laughing all the way to the bank.
The difference between how politicians treat wealthy counties and working class counties in this state is so brazen it is almost unbelievable.
Fully agree, Ms. Covello. having observed the evolution of that difference for over five decades, it occurs to me that the resource extraction once conducted as a form of exchange, has come to resemble nothing so much as what we see internationally as "clientism," that pale offshoot of colonialism. Shorn of empty, ahistorical virtue-signalling, the term "colonialism" is arguably applicable in its economic and supervisorial sense.
To be clear; there would have been no logging, ranching or fishing industries without a centralized market for the commodities produced. If you thought me an unrepentant sentimentalist for mourning the decline of those industries, I'd not argue the point, but I watched it closely and the correlation with financialization and elite overproduction is very strong indeed. The consequences of injecting an "outlaw economy" into these regions, has have been far-reaching.
Having only recently been made aware of your most excellent Substack, I'm reminded of some of Bruce Anderson's exposes of the late seventies. Your writings compare favorably and you have the advantage of being an insider working at a remove; it is more difficult to apply pressure because you are not vulnerable to influence in the way that the localized newspapers have been. If you don't like Bruce, please forgive the comparison; I'm only referring to the way he would "upset the apple cart" periodically by "saying the quiet part out loud," back in the day.