Well, yes. Urban California is a third-world shithole.

 The corruption of California, as told by someone who's actually shocked that urban California is a third-world shithole.

 Under conditions of bureaucratic dysfunction typical of a party-state, corruption isn’t a problem, it is the solution. These new populations have found ways to get things done. Bribery is more efficient (and far less crazy-making) than clinging to first-world expectations in a world that has changed.

Marxist government, bureaucratic hegemony, more "diversity" than you can shake a stick at, tribalism, acceptance of crime and of the lionization of criminals, and the willful ignorance of the fact that what people do in their own countries they will do in ours, have combined to make urban California places you couldn't pay me to visit.  When I was stuck in Lost Angeles, the Sunset Strip still had the shops and the theaters and the restaurants.  It also had homeless drug addicts jerking off in public and an ever-present smell of piss wafting from the alleyways.  Balboa Park had junkies, whores and human feces.  Government was a fat tick sucking the life out of it's host.  And the population was not American.

Plain and simple.  Once you got away from the rich and famous, the population was not American.  They were third worlders, imported to LA to do the work that the rich and famous didn't want to pay very much for a white person to do.  I was one of two people on my block who spoke English.  If you import peasants from a third world shithole, they're not going to suddenly become law-abiding Americans.  They're going to continue to live like third world peasants, which does not include respect for the law, property rights, or an understanding of limited government.

Go ahead and read that article, and understand that this is what the Democrat party wants for all of America.  Then show it to any of your pals who haven't woken up from their sheeple-like slumber yet.