California has become a test case of the suicide of the West. Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed with such a bountiful human inheritance, self-destructed so rapidly. How and why did California so utterly consume its unmatched natural and ancestral inheritance and end up as a warning to Western civilization of what might be in store for anyone who followed its nihilism? 6 Californians have been enduring a series of economic and social obstacles. AFP via Getty Images The symptoms of the state’s suicide are indisputable. Gov. Gavin Newsom enjoyed a recent $98...