That's just an excuse, they have an idea alright, they want everyone to live in one of their urban utopias where they can be easily controlled.
“......where they can be easily controlled.”
Controlling is only half of the intent. California is filled with programs designed to enslave people to them to provide the wealth to further enslave. Welfare, unemployment, Medical, and all the other programs they have there were created to capture people into having to vote for them too keep them coming. Not to actually help them because it doesn’t. It just maintains them with no way out of it and no possible improvement.
The other half of this is trying to force the Feds to support their programs using many different scams so the feds will give them the money the government of California needs to stay in that control you mentioned.
So if they allow the burning down of peoples’ property, and causing the folks with the cash to rebuild, are they doing that?
I think they are thinking only short term to get what they can right now. Down the road will be another scam. And that means building up a surplus of money so they can invent another people capturing program. But in the meantime, if they continue to use the fire problem as a tool like they are using ecology as a lie, then they will have a supply of scratch. But when the owners get enough of it, and they aren’t real bright, the cash cow will dry up.
rwood