By Jennifer Roback Morse Published on January 28, 2025, at The Stream.
Defunding the firefighters, DEI hires for significant positions, and ideologically driven environmental restrictions on water projects: All these played a part in increasing the devastation of the recent California wildfires.
In my last article, I argued that these policies are the fruit of Fantasy Ideologies that enhance power accumulation for the Ruling Class. One dreadful consequence of their constant propaganda is that they have damaged the fabric of trust that any complex society needs in order to function.
The Elites have spent years moving the “equity” goalposts, with ever more elaborate demands for eliminating “systemic racism,” “homophobia,” and “transphobia.” Members of the political class have no useful skills themselves, and they have alienated the people who do. With their endless rules, regulations, and mindless requirements, and periodic scapegoating of anyone who resists them, they’ve made it nearly impossible for competent people (who do have a clue what to do) to actually get anything done.
Now that a big chunk of the most densely populated part of California has literally burned to the ground, we have to face the problem of rebuilding. I can tell you from my own experience with natural disasters that wishful thinking has no constructive role to play in this.
The people of Southern California have lost everything. They cannot solve their problems by themselves. They cannot rebuild their homes and communities using only the resources they have on hand there. Everything is gone. They will, by necessity, be counting on people from all over the country and even the world to help them by supplying materials, expertise, and labor.
A Sane Way of Dealing with Natural Disaster
