Posted on 01/14/2025 6:26:54 PM PST by Rummyfan
Los Angeles authorities’ poor preparation for and lamentable response to the wildfires now devastating the city capture a broader problem – namely, the failure of governance across America’s Democrat-controlled regions. This pattern of incompetence has accelerated the shift of American economic and political power to regions outside the long dominant north-east and West Coast.
The reason for this shift lies in the clear failure of Democrats, writ large in the inferno now consuming large swathes of LA. In states like California, Democratic politicians no longer prioritise such things as public safety and key infrastructure, including roads, ports and, most importantly at the moment, water systems. Indeed, today’s ‘progressives’ generally shy away from things like building dams or maintaining water pressure in the name of protecting the environment. They are far more focussed on climate change and ‘social justice’.
Of course, California progressives will justify this by blaming the fires on climate change, even though a leading fire expert at the US Geological Survey suggests this claim is unsupported. Fires have been a regular feature of life in southern California for at least 20million years. Moreover, given the recent extremely dry weather conditions, LA should have been prepared for a conflagration. It was not. A councilperson representing the Palisades has noted the ‘chronic underinvestment in our critical infrastructure’.
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“The reason for this shift lies in the clear failure of Democrats...”
It’s intentional. You’ll own nothing and like it.
It wasn’t incompetence. It was a deliberate, premeditated attack.
The result of forest mismanagement.
Meanwhile, on LA’s last mayoral election...
“...The contest was a virtual dead heat on Election Night. Caruso pulled slightly ahead last Thursday, but since then Bass gained a steady lead...”
Sound familiar...?
I think there’s a decent chance that, no, they didn’t vote for this.
Oddly enough, there was water, just not in the hydrants.
There are a number of stories of people, including elderly residents, who saved their homes with their garden hoses.
Note to folks in CA: You might want to think about organizing civilian fire brigades.
LOOK AT THE GOOD SIDE OF IT! The Smelt fish are doing well now the reservoirs and dams once used for fire suppression, have been destroyed and drained. and the brush allowed to grow for nesting birds and ground animals so the Greenies could go out and commune with Mother Nature!
Now Mother Nature has bit them in the butt big time. As an old advertisement used to say...”It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!”
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