Will the Red-hot California Fires Red-pill Americans?
When all is said and done, the wildfires raging in and around Los Angeles may be the worst natural disaster in American history in terms of scope and cost. But did it have to be this way? For sure, there are factors beyond man’s control, such as the fierce Santa Ana winds and Southern California’s dry environment. Then, however, there are the controllable factors: Having quota (DEI) hires in the Los Angeles Fire Department’s upper echelons, failure to be proactive (authorities did have advance warning of extreme fire danger), poor forest management, not maintaining water stocks, and vagrancy’s normalization. (Approximately 50 percent of all Los Angeles fires are set by vagrants, according to reporter Michael Shellenberger.) But then, though it’s the hardest of ways to learn a lesson, there may be one silver lining in this very tragic cloud: More Americans may be waking up to the wages of woke governance.
To wit: “The Left is no longer getting away with blaming climate change for wildfire disasters,” wrote British publication The Telegraph January 11. “Instead, residents whose homes have been ravaged have rightly turned their ire on those in charge.” Apropos to this, ex-New York Times editor Bari Weiss said recently that the “fire is happening in a context of total incompetency” and put the onus on officials such as Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
Yet another significant factor is recent victories over the censorship cartel. Entrepreneur Elon Musk has made X largely a free-speech platform, and Mark Zuckerberg has now vowed to follow suit with Facebook (we’ll see if that materializes). Most significantly, we apparently have reached a tipping point: The “alternative” media is becoming mainstream and the erstwhile mainstream media is increasingly marginalized. It can no longer control the “narrative” (at least for the present).
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