Fire Alarmed in California
I don’t want to alarm anyone, but California’s burning. This is no time to exacerbate catastrophe with panic. Yet the downside of avoiding sounding the alarm is outweighed by the way fire hurts and is known for damaging property. Turning on the siren is not universally endorsed. Democrats prefer pretending nothing’s happening like Principal Skinner making steamed hams.
Some ostensible leaders would prefer you keep down the racket about being surrounded by scorching. Obey the governor who’s frustrated that blazes wouldn’t do the same. We suddenly can’t blame natural disasters on politicians like when a president is supposed to prevent a hurricane from hitting a coastal city. Such outcomes will happen again with a Republican in the White House. Science is predictable in anticipating ridiculous human bias.
Democratic goals are in place. Humans aren’t harming the environment with their problematic water storage. You probably want to selfishly address your personal hydration situation after the charred bits stop smoldering. A fish so undignified that it’s named a smelt is safe from flames if you’re done worried about having to live in a tent like the human invader into a delicate ecosystem you are.
Diverting water on behalf of a creature that’s unspectacular even amongst exclusive swimmers sounds like an accusation found in an email forwarded from a Boomer relative who leaves the television on Fox News. But the seemingly outlandish claim about state overreach is correct.
The Berlin Wall wasn’t high enough. Thoughtful schemers who fail to warp reality to their progressive standards always need more bending. However much they confiscated from the productive is never enough. It’s really your fault. You should’ve sent California’s treasury some of your decadent dollars regardless of what state hosts your address. And that’s not to mention your greedy refusal to demand higher taxes so reservoirs can finally be filled.
The Party of Newsom’s two most identifiable aspects are seeking to control life itself the inability to do its actual tasks. Many of them involve dialing 911. Fire prevention is one of those activities we’ve delegated to elected authorities. They were too busy constructing an equitable society to extract twigs from the path of combustion. California’s uniparty got every single policy goal they demanded and couldn’t institute the most basic protections. Are you sure this is liberalism we’re talking about?
It’s too bad the Golden State has no government. Such a mechanism would be particularly helpful at the time of widespread embers. Pretending California is Galt’s Gulch and not the place exasperated citizens escape is just another fib that’s part of a larger lie about ignoring that hot feeling. Alleged global warming foes sure let their state’s temperature spike. The Los Angeles area turned into a Mad Max reboot precisely because of a pushy state capital. Political ineptness leads to anarchy.
Blaming others is the party specialty. Democratic expertise is certainly not based in making life blissful through governmental interaction despite ceaseless boasts. If you don’t feel like you’ve received proper value for what’s looted in taxes, you may take your business nowhere.
There’s always a company to blame, at least if you’re a Democrat who needs to distract from the blamable thing government did. Take insurers who fled because California made itself a tinder box. Responding to market incentives is just another reason those who twisted them hate free markets. Victims of liberal intervention suffer the double indignity of getting blamed by same liberals. Demonizing retailers forced to charge high prices because of inflation comes as naturally as condemning health insurers who must obey onerous federal restrictions.
The progressive utopia is an inferno a bit more literally than usual. Gavin Newsom struggles with his one true worry, namely the impact of his conflagration of a state on running for president. You can tell Democrats are empathetic because they’re always telling you they are. There would be nothing crueler caused by widespread residence loss. Dreaming of taking California nationally is a threat. This is as far from Ronald Reagan as it can get.
California could be an experiment to take every possible natural advantage and see if it can be squandered. The refusal to tame the dangerous bits endangered people who just sought sunshine.
Humans can control their conditions, which infuriates those whose greatest concern is the size of a carbon footprint. Thinking civilization is an icky intrusion just happens to be popular amongst those who oversee combustion. Trees are being removed rather actively by ecological standards.
Democrats boast about modifying everything about Earth and life on it until it comes to clearing brush. Working with one’s hands seems so pedestrian. There are bigger plans to address that don’t require manual labor. The pesky natural world is really mean for making rulers look like bumblers.
You can always trust a Democrat to care if less counts. Shrugging about dry conditions is as lacking in compassion as pointing out the sections of Southern California that aren’t ashes.
Constant bad choices from those who presume government should make all of them should offer a sign. It’s not one for them, of course, as they’ll continue to tell you what to do even as they don’t stow flammable items during incendiary season. Fire is most destructive as a result of carelessness. The party that blames things and not human decisions shows just why.
