“as we become more affluent”
This is the real problem. Progressives don’t have the confidence in their own beliefs to just come out and say what they’re really thinking.
They want to destroy the free market system of our liberties.
I don’t really don’t think this is a political spectrum issue... Given that in both CO and CA, the vast majority of the affluent that move into the mtns are liberals. They just aren’t willing to do what is necessary to maintain their property or the larger forests to reduce the overall damage of inevitable fires.