Opinion: Reality deniers like Kari Lake fit right in with Arizona's history of wishful thinking (via latimesopinion )
like Golden Valley, Prescott Valley and Rio Rico — stretches of wasteland that a previous generation of ranchers had valued at just pennies on the acre — gave the state a dirty reputation nationwide. But gullible buyers always played a key role in settling Arizona. One famous scoundrel, James Reavis, “The Baron of Arizona,” managed in the 1880s to convince hundreds of landowners between Phoenix and Silver City, N.M., to pay him quitclaim fees on land he didn’t own.
Arizonans see what they choose to see. Before he went to federal prison in 1992, savings and loan king Charles Keating built a gilded luxury resort here called the Phoenician, with money filched from the savings of thousands of small depositors. During the 1964 presidential race, Sen. Barry Goldwater suggested he would defoliate the tree cover over the Ho Chi Minh Trail with nuclear weapons — and for good measure,“lob one into the men’s room at the Kremlin” too.
Part of the Arizona Dream is that you can move here with no family connections and no history and fit right in — even be elected to high office. People migrate here for a second chance and a fresh start in the land of wide-open skies and new opportunities.
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