Los Angeles Is a War Zone—Just Not in the Way You Might Think

By now, you’ve seen the apocalyptic destruction unleashed by out-of-control wildfires in the Los Angeles area. Dystopian videos of piles of burnt-out cars left abandoned on the roads, smoldering ruins of historic houses, and nightmare photos of entire neighborhoods destroyed—along with the memories and possessions of tens of thousands of people—have been flashing across our screens for days now.

As a long-term resident here in the formerly great city of Los Angeles, I have been blessed that the flames have not come for me and mine in the flats of the Valley yet, but we know so many cherished friends who tonight are without a home—because their abodes have been burned to the ground.

You see the phrase bandied about in media that it looks like a “war zone,” especially in the Pacific Palisades, which has essentially been wiped off the earth in what looks like a Hollywood-produced, overly-CGI-reliant disaster movie. Sadly, for far too many, it's not CGI, it's reality.

Here’s the reality: it is a battle zone. An existential fight over the future of America. Is this massive progressive failure the norm that we should just accept as the new American reality, or are we going to look to a new way forward, one that focuses on excellence, competence and innovation over identity politics, a lowering of our standards, and an acceptance of mediocrity (or worse)?

Many including myself have been writing for years about the decline of the Golden State—and Democrat-run cities in general—but the progressive assault continues in Chicago, St. Louis, Oakland, Seattle, New York, San Francisco… the list goes on. Could this disaster be the wake-up call to America that their warped priorities and policies simply aren’t working?

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The list of failures in this disaster could fill a lengthy tome—the decades of water mismanagement and the continued failure to adequately supply LA, though it’s well within in our means to do so, the refusal to capture the billions of gallons of rainwater, opting to instead let it just flow out to the Pacific Ocean while we are told to let our lawns die, the focus at the LAFD on DEI and LGBTQ instead of actual firefighting, the billions thrown at the homeless-industrial complex with almost nothing to show for it except more homeless people…

Is this what the future of America looks like? In too many cities, it already does, with Third-World country conditions prevailing, but do we want to see that everywhere?

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Altadena and the Pacific Palisades in particular look like battlegrounds as of this writing—the images reveal a hellscape that looks like it’s been carpet-bombed by our enemies for months.

Los Angeles and the entire state of California have become a battleground for ideas. Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election shows very clearly that many Americans have woken up and are starting to reject the progressive worldview—but remember, it was just four short years ago they voted in a man who turned out to be the most divisive, spite-filled president in our history. The battle is far from over.

Gavin Newsom is still out there, Kamala Harris is still lurking, Nancy Pelosi somehow continues her lip-sucking career in Congress, the most odious figure in politics, now-Sen. Adam Schiff, somehow got elected as a senator. The battle is not won, not by a long shot, but conservatives must defeat the progressives, or all of the United States will soon look like the Pacific Palisades. This is what they’ve wanted, this is what they’ve achieved, and this is what they want for you.

It is a battleground, and the battle must be won.