POLITICS: Catastrophic wildfires left LA in ashes due to California’s failing liberal leadership

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If only we were in charge, the liberals say, with unlimited money and unlimited power and unlimited resources, we would make the world a utopia.

Such a place exists. It’s called California. And today, it is in ashes.

With a Democratic governor, Democratic mayors, Democratic city councils and a Democratic justice system, the progressives have darkened the land of perpetual sunshine.

Since 2019, the state has spent an astonishing $24 billion to “solve” homelessness. Homelessness increased.

Drive through the streets of Los Angeles and you’ll see tent cities under freeways, in bus stops and on concrete riverbeds.

Since enforcing the law is “racist,” thieves are no longer prosecuted. Shoplifting increased 28%, and stores locked up the shampoo.

Criminals are let go with no bail. Drug users are allowed to slowly kill themselves in public spaces, needles dangling from their arms on the sidewalks.


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This week’s devastating wildfires are the pinnacle of Democratic incompetence. Environmentalists and politicians refused to clear the underbrush that fueled the flames. A reservoir in Pacific Palisades was shockingly closed for repair.

With the forecast showing 100 mph Santa Ana winds, only three tankers of water were available there to keep the hydrants flowing. Gov. Gavin Newsom refused to take responsibility, blaming the “local folks.”

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, despite the warnings, chose to spend her time in Ghana. She’s been trumpeting a reparations commission as she cuts the fire department’s budget.

Asked if the city had failed her, Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley could only say, “yes.”

But Democrats have not just failed the fire department, or the people whose homes have burned. They have failed the 39 million residents of California.

Consider what they have wasted. California has the highest top income-tax bracket in the country, 13.3%.

That’s just state taxes, on top of federal. It has the highest state sales tax in the nation, 7.25%.

California brought in $17 billion more in tax revenue than it expected last year. It has a budget surplus of $363 million. They are swimming in money.

Yet Newsom plans to waste every penny, with a $322 billion budget.

Surveying the cinders of their homes, California residents will rightly wonder: Where did all that money go?

How was this American Eden steered so wrong? How did this land of jaw-dropping beauty — from the foggy San Francisco bay to 70-degree days on a Santa Monica beach — lose all its sense?

This is a reckoning. The voters must demand total change. Democrats have enjoyed one-party rule in California for far too long, and there is no one else to blame for what has happened.

California is not paradise lost. California is paradise squandered. The people must take it back.



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