The wagons, they be circling. On Thursday I appeared on NewsNation's Chris Cuomo program and stated the truth: Progressives cannot run governments effectively.
The topic was the vicious California fires where the Gavin Newsom-run state had done little to protect the folks from inevitable natural disasters. I ran down an extensive fact sheet of firefighters being cut back, and water storage plants derailed by fanatical environmentalists.
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That opinion was not well received by the left. In the next segment, Cuomo brought on former California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi, an ardent Democrat, who proceeded to call me a lout or something.
But he couldn't refute my data. He didn't even try. According to him, I am a miscreant for factual reporting.
Later, on NewsNation, Geraldo popped up and informed the audience that I am a longtime bloviator. Who knew? But, again, California's lack of disaster prevention strategy cannot be denied by any rational human being.
I understand progressives very well. It is not about problem-solving in those precincts; it's about imposing their woke, leftist ideology on everybody. In the Sacramento legislature, California passed funding for seven water storage plants ten years ago. None have been built because "environmentalists" objected. Something about "smelts". Newsom would not challenge them. Therefore, water is scarce in much of the dry state. Bulletin to the progressives: Water is needed to douse fires.
The main fault in the wildfire disaster lies not with dopey politicians. We will always have them. No, it's the voters who elect these pinheads. The mayor of Los Angeles actually cut the fire department's budget by 12 percent despite her self-selected fire chief telling her that was dangerous.
Way to go, Mayor Karen Bass. Way to go, people who voted for her.
There's a song written by Pete Seeger in 1955 called "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" A protest tune. The refrain is: "When will they ever learn?"
In California, the answer seems to be never. But the nation is another story. In addition to lamenting a terrible flame-driven tragedy, we are all watching the progressive movement go up in smoke.
