by Kerry Dougherty
Scenes from Los Angeles are apocalyptic. Thousands of homes and buildings destroyed in a massive, uncontained conflagration. So many lives disrupted and lives lost. Chunks of a city reduced to ashes.
Is there anything good that can come out of such widespread devastation?
I believe there is.
Virginians can look at the California catastrophe and see what happens when state and local governments are run by Democrat climate crazies and DEI devotees and avoid making those mistakes here.
For instance, when governments factotums are more concerned with preserving a fish – the delta smelt – than human life, bad things happen. Dry reservoirs, for one, during a time of ample rainfall.
When a city is run by officials whose hiring practices prioritize race and sexual orientation over competency the result is incompetent departments. The L.A. city government is a perfect example. The mayor was on a taxpayer funded trip to Ghana while the fires began. She also cut funding to the city’s fire department, which in turn spent time and capital trying to hire more female fire fighters instead of preparing for inevitable wildfires.
And as we witnessed during the last Virginia’s governor’s reign of terror – don’t make me utter his name, please – Virginia’s Democrat party recently began looking longingly at the one-party state of California for inspiration. Continue reading.
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