This is a good article about what went wrong in California specifically Los Angeles, long piece

excerpt: What is new are years of mismanagement, sprawling urban centers built in unattended dry brush, and underprepared government agencies focused on DEI and rhetoric over outcomes.

These are just a few reasons for the state of the Golden State, the reason LA is on fire. There are layers of ineptitude to examine. Years of government mismanagement and money laundering and rejection of pragmatism and science in favor of ideological sun god worship and anti-humanism. Not all the headlines are exciting. This is what a Democrat supermajority looks like. This is the banal, boring brutality of bureaucracy. It’s death by a thousand cuts. This is why people ignore it, get numb to it, or finally move away.

This is why Los Angeles is burning.