Looking For Witches In All The Wrong Places: How California Went Bankrupt

Quick, what’s the difference between witchcraft and sexual harassment? Answer: In California, at least, the first has no legal standing, while the latter is the object of an invasive and brutal campaign of eradication not seen since the Medieval Inquisition. “What are you saying?” you ask as you recoil in disbelief boarding on horror. “Everyone knows that belief in ‘witchcraft’ is a hallmark of a superstitious, and ignorant pre-modern society, while belief in ‘sexual harassment’ is the hallmark of an enlightened, egalitarian, and scientific post-modern society.” Alas, my friend, you could not be further from the truth because both hallmarks are fantasies of aging and inflexible societies which are quickly losing their grip on reality. And as a society becomes increasingly unable to cope with a reality its citizens cannot grasp, it grasps for straws. Witches or sexual harassers it really doesn’t matter.

So what has all this to do with a bankrupt California? A lot. Unable to cope with the realities of governing California, its good citizens have chased the will-o-wisp of sexual harassment for over two decades. They act in the sure and certain belief that those who create “hostile environments” somehow must represent the Evil One who has brought down this chaos upon them. Meanwhile the state has not had a constitutional mandated budget for over seventy days, and the governor (I’m certain I don’t have to tell you his name) is threatening to veto the cobbled together fiasco the legislature has produced. The legislators have responded that they will simply override his veto. The governor replied he will then veto every bill on his desk, especially those beloved by the movers and shakers. Sweet. California is out of money, out of ideas, and possibly out of time. But there is good news nonetheless. Sexual harassers are on the run!