https://youtu.be/0r0m4UCPKHw
Hanson is a classical scholar and so his starting point is governance and from the times of the Romans and the Greeks and he lauds the middle class as the backbone of citizenship because of its independence and entrepreneurship, thus can fearlessly and objectivly counsel the leadership.
He turns to the successes that California enjoyed in the past. These were its public works which supported a thriving independent middle class business community: the reservoirs, the bridges, the airports, the schools and universities.
Then he compares that to the situation today with its high taxes, homelessness, a middle-class that can no longer compete, that is leaving and being replaced by immigrants and the costs of assimilating them. He talks of the poverty that has replaced wealth and the ignorance that gas replaced learning. He talks of the financing of the poor by transferring money from the middle class, approved by the elite as they are not affected.
And finally he laments the passing of the middle class completely. They have been written out, leaving an unstable, what he calls "medieval binary", exactly what his Greek and Roman examples wanted most to avoid.
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