We are told not to blame Los Angelenos for what is happening. We are told to blame the Snail Darter (in CA, in the form of Delta Smelt) and the courts, DEI hiring (leading to insufficient boats and reservoirs), Trump - for being annoying, or the weather. Suppose, however, that Californians did choose some parts of their fate. California allows for voter-initiatives, a form of Direct Democracy.
Among these initiatives is Proposition 103 which declared that insurers can't hire actuaries. I'm serious. Another one was Proposition 47 which lightened sentences for Quality Of Life offences like Urban Camping.
Even if California politicos would like to bring back insurers and to keep mentally-unfit and angry people off the streets, they... can't.
These Props are not on Mayor Karen Bass, disappointing as she has been (I recall Sailer and Cole, both famously #based, as more-or-less supportive, years back). These are on you. Likewise on you is all that NIMBY against doing the Israel on the potential water-supply off the shore. As Cerno has noted, Maslow was wrong: most people freed of Problem A won't solve Problem B, they'll - literally - Problematise what is good.
My suggestion to the incoming Administration and to Congress is that, when California sends Representatives with their hands out, to tie some serious strings around those hands. To whit: Federalise the coast from somewhere south of the SF Bay all the way to Tijuana. Make that strip a Territory, with some name taken from an Indigenous pre-Uto-Aztecan tribe like the Chumash. If these people are simply not in California anymore, they're not ruled by those stupid Propositions.
(Incidentally this is why I haven't bothered with Romania lately. If you vote for a joke, get treated like a joke.)
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