California An Ideological Dumpster Fire

Ain’t diversity grand! Just ask California Governor Gavin Newsom. Just ask L.A. Mayor Karen Bass (recently back from Africa). Just ask L.A. LGBTQ fire chief Kristin Crowley. Just ask virtually anyone in a position of power in that once great state, now literally burning and coming apart at the seams. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion! Shout it to the heavens!

And run for your lives.

As apocalyptic flames engulf what was once one of the world’s great cities, we are witnessing the full fruition of the very real consequences of allowing not one but two insane ideologies to replace competency and even any consideration for reality itself. Those two insane ideologies are the insane ideology of anthropogenic (man-caused) climate change and the insane ideology of the inherent goodness of diversity for its own sake.

The insane ideology of climate change tells us that any extreme weather, no matter how common it is and always has been, is caused by ongoing climate change, directly caused by humans as a result of their voracious greed, which is enabled by capitalism. So, that’s what is causing the current fires in L.A., we’re told. And if you try to tell climate fundamentalists about the innumerable fires that have occurred across the eons, before anthropogenic climate change was even possible, you’ll be stared at like a deer in the headlights. Or accusatorily called a “denier.”

But this isn’t the first time Pacific Palisades has been largely ruined by fire. Just ask Mary Astor, W.C. Fields or the widow of Will Rogers. Oh, that’s right, they’re all long dead. Because that fire was in 1938, before there was any blather about climate change. A couple of years before that, fires were seen as the greatest threat to future prosperity in California, again, before anthropogenic climate change was even a twinkle in some mad scientist’s eye.

As for the other insane ideology, it’s almost as if diversity has taken L.A. back to a pristine time when fire was first discovered by man, but long before he learned how to use or control it. Not that fires can ever be fully controlled, but not that long ago, Californicus Homo sapiens had learned how to mitigate the destruction they caused through wise forestry practices and water management. But that appears to be over. Nobody’s clearing brush, there are no new reservoirs to hold water—trillions of gallons just flow to the sea, and all the L.A. fire chief can say is, “We need more lesbians!”

If your criteria for hiring the people who are supposed to be responsible for your physical safety is anything other than their competency . . . If it has anything to do with their color . . . If it has anything to do with the rainbow . . . If it has anything to do with their biological sex . . . If it has anything to do with some irrelevant feature of their identity . . .

Then don’t be surprised when you look out your window and see flames everywhere. Or you see riots. Or an endless invasion from south of the border. Or hordes of bedraggled homeless. Or open-air drug markets. Or a parade of depraved deviants dancing on floats.

Our modern technological society, which brings prosperity and comfort, is extremely fragile and relies heavily on competency, not to mention ordinary common sense. If either of those are seriously tainted by ideological foolishness, it could all come crashing down, and California seems to be teetering on the brink.

If this doesn’t wake up the voters of the once-great state of California, then nothing can, and it will just go the way of other fallen civilizations onto the ash heap of history. While we have sympathy for our fellow human beings and what they’re going through right now, at some point, people simply have to pay a price for self-destructive foolishness and/or apathetic cluelessness.

We should all pray for the victims of the fires, as well as for the enlightenment of the voters as they choose their leaders in the future.