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SECTION 5
DID WEST COAST ELITES CAUSE THE LA WILDFIRE
DISASTER (Is Victor Davis Hanson Wrong?)
Version 1 ... February 2025

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because they Envy what the United States can do to its working class because you can't do it there right Europeans have a
National Health Service Europe doesn't allow the death penalty European
universities are mostly free yeah you can't do to the working class there and
their capitalists are envious but other than that the culture War stuff cannot
be pursued there the way it is here because it doesn't have this history you mentioned I mean as as an economist you

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Did West Coast Elites Cause the LA Wildfire Disaster (Is Victor Davis Hanson Wrong?)?

tend to support a lot of your arguments with reference to economics absolutely
right and Victor's background at least in part is farming so it was natural for us to talk about the California wildfire
disaster because he could at at length explain exactly what's going on with
California's water but the way that he accounted for this situation and I bring it up just because it's still quite

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topical is that you have a situation where the government is at the hands of this by Coastal in this case West
Coastal Elite and they're ideologically captured and incompetent and their mismanagement is what led to this
tremendous disaster or at least seriously contributed to it whereas if
you had had people closer to the soil or closer to the water in charge this This
Disaster would not have expanded to the proportions it has
um taken out but this is simple minded in this what is this as an analysis bad
people made bad decisions okay but why are those bad
people in a position to do that and why did they make the bad what what where's
it what kind of an analysis this not analysis this is saying there something really

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bad happened and I'm going to tell you who's responsible okay
uh can we get beyond that could you okay you pointed at Jack or at what is it the
elite well how did they get to be the elite who didn't get there why did that
happen come on this is not an analysis this is substitute you don't need an
analysis you got the bad guy I don't have to understand why any of this happened I got the by the way you know
that's our Criminal Justice System well we get the bad guy we put him in jail
see yeah Jack you know what the recidivism right in the country is that guy in jail going to come out and you
know what jail is going to do and make him worse you're not solving any problem has jail solved our crime problem we're
a Crim ridden soci everybody has a gun that was supposed to solve the problem didn't you what are

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you doing that Mr Hansen can sit and again I don't know him and I bear him no ill
will but to sit and talk like this don't doesn't he feel the need if
he's going to make the bad guy be people in California who have been incompetent
really you think incompetence is all on one side of the legend here and if they are incompetent how
come they're in this position to do these things as such big incompetence I
mean the the questions that this kind of line of thinking opens up that are not admitted or addressed or to make you
wonder wow wow and again I'm I'm getting closer to
taking offense because there are ugly versions of this
which are racism you know that also pins a whole

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lot of associations on some group well what I noticed Mr Trump said that the
problem with immigrants is they do crime and then his own FBI had to release the
statistics that the crime rate among undocumented immigrants is lower than
the crime rate among natives which would have been the reasonable presumption any anyway why because if you're an
undocumented immigrant you want to keep as far away from the police as I mean
come on my parents were immigrants I'm also personally affected by this and this by
the way Mr Hansen knows that this country has a history serious history of
racism of blaming people for all of of badmouthing every immigrant wave that
came here the English did it to the Irish the Irish did it to the Italian I could go

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on and we all know that we really do we invented the melting pot because
we were so upset by what the reality was okay and still is in large parts of the
country so what are you doing the culture War means you're inventing yet another what
there's something you know these people who live in California have their incompetent oh what what is
racism those dark skinned people they're not they're like children should I
rehash our American South this is a dangerous way of thinking I don't think
he means it my suspicion is like most of people like that he's ignorant of of
this country's history because if he weren't he'd be much more hesitant about
talking like this knowing where it comes from and where it might go it doesn't

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need some nice close to the soral farm or to give it valid validity it's very
dangerous I do think that Victor is a very careful thinker and he's not here so yes for sure I can't speak for him
but when I next speak with him I will certainly raise some of these points to
to it to get his opinions that's what I if I were in a room with him right right right right of course and but before we
move on I am curious to hear I mean I take it I assume I I know that you're somebody who likes to hear both sides of

Why Richard Wolff Enjoys Tucker Carlson

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an issue who likes to think about things care I want to learn are there any right-wing thinkers out there today or
political pundits or commentators who you do find to be genuinely insightful
and interesting I don't know what generally quite means uh genuinely I yeah no I I I
don't know what it means and I'm no Jud of how genuine they are but