California as Sociological Experiment Gone Wrong

Or is that redundant?  Victor Davis Hanson chronicling the implosion of California over at Pajamas Media.

Professor Hanson saves the best for last, in the penultimate paragraph,

"History’s revolutions and upheavals — whether the Nika rioting in Constantinople, the periodic uprising of the turba in Rome, the French upheavals, or the Bolshevik Revolution — are rarely fueled by the starving and despised, but by the subsidized and frustrated, who either see their umbilical cord threatened, or their comfort and subsidies static rather than expansive — or their own condition surpassed by that of an envied kulak class. Perceived relative inequality rather than absolute poverty is the engine of revolution."