If I’ve said it once, the saying goes, Democrats break things, then create more government to “fix” them, and they keep doing it if you let them, but nothing gets fixed. In fact, it all gets worse. Sometimes these broken things collide, breaking more things, which is an exponential win for progressive policy. Take the Palisades fires, LA Fires, wait – you mean the homeless fires.
California’s proclivities brought about an alignment of multiple systemic acts of stupidity that resulted in death and destruction on a cinematic disaster movie scale. Woke leadership, bad forest management, sadly inefficient water policies, budgeting and staffing problems, and this.
In 2024, close to 17,000 fires were attributed to homeless people through campfires, attempts to keep warm, or cooking. That’s not a typo. “Arson” is considered a “quality of life crime,” thus deprioritized by LA County’s district attorney, which helps explain why cops complain that their hands are tied. Progressives cuffed the cops.
Bums and vagrants had been setting fires in the Palisades for months. Residents complained, but the cops said their hands were tied. The DA would not prosecute any unhoused persons trying to stay warm or cook something out in the wild, despite the likelihood of a runaway wildfire. Dozens died and hundreds of billions worth of property were destroyed, not to mention all those emissions!
The fire-bug homeless no one would arrest, which, by the way, would house them at least temporarily, likely started the fires in 2024 that captured headlines for weeks and exposed the self-interested political priorities of May Bass, her DEI hire fire chief, and the layers of failure you get from decades of Democrat rule.
Not to worry. It broke a lot of things, which have yet to be fixed because this is California. It takes years and fortunes to get permitting, made more difficult when the same Democrats whose interest in hobofires took everything you owned are eyeing the scorched landscape as an opportunity to seize it all to build homes for the people who likely burned you out.
People who are homeless because of progressive policy priorities.
You probably voted for it. All of it. And maybe what goes around will come around, and they’ll let you live in a tiny concrete apartment near where your house burned down.
