Whoa! Stealing Is Illegal Again in California!?!

Who would have thought?

Once again stealing is illegal in California. What next?

This from hotair.com.

A video of two young women casually shoplifting in California and subsequently being arrested is making the rounds on X, and  the waves of schadenfreude emanating from all the people viewing it are apparent.

For years, We the People have watched in horror videos that showed criminals walking into stores and casually taking whatever they want. On the one hand, people thought Californians deserved what they voted for, but on the other, it was a visible symbol of the decline of our civilization.

Watching our wealthiest state turn into a third-world hellhole is not only depressing, but it seemed a preview of what was to come to the rest of the country soon enough.

California voters—shockingly tolerant of the insanity brought to them courtesy of progressives—had enough of the druggies wandering the streets and the casual lawlessness seen everywhere. Walking into Target or Walmart and requiring a clerk to open locked cabinets to purchase a razor was too much even for them.

Trump’s loser opponent had helped lead the charge to decriminalize…crime…and refused to endorse the Proposition that recriminalized stealing, and Gavin Newsom actually criticized the effort to do so.

Despite Newsom’s endorsement of keeping criminals out of jail, Californians overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36.

Newsom has not seen the inside of a store in years, but anyone who wanted to buy a toothbrush in or near a city was sick and tired of living in a dystopia.

We the People can see that progressivism is losing badly when even Californians get tired of being told to grin and bear the costs of informal reparations. Most Californians do not really want what the progressives are selling; they simply think that if they disagree with the activists, they will be called bad people, and their friends will cancel them.

Does this small victory suggest that California can be saved from itself? Not in itself. The administrative state is entrenched, [the communist/globalist crime syndicate] has money and a machine, and the public employees’ unions have an iron grip on a large chunk of voters, so they only need to pick up a relatively small number of voters to keep winning every election that matters in the state.

Will that happen? Not likely in the short term. Most establishment business leaders have made their peace with the Leftists, and few national funders want to pour gobs of money into what would be a 15-year or longer project.