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I was using the term "one-party state" metaphorically. I thought that would be obvious.

In any case the demographics in California are now such that it is close to impossible for a Republican governor to be elected. Which means that Dem politicians are now only really accountable to the people of influence in their own party, not so much the general public. And they have an entirely different set of interests to the general public.

It doesn't matter what your political persuasion, a "one-party state" is in nobody's interest. For example if politics was not so dysfunctional in California you might have had a competent mayor in LA and the Palisades would still be standing....

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It's really unfortunate that fire burned on President Trump's watch.

Even more so that he doesn't govern the local fire services.

He's been deploying the National Guard to cities in peacetime, And the National Guard helped with the Palisades response. I'm sure he could deploy them to rake the forest floor.

It actually seems strange he has not; he sounded so confident in that approach on the campaign trail.

Yep...cleaning up the mess left behind by dysfunctional Democrat politics....

Right now, they're apparently cleaning the parks.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/national...

(... ironically: to the extent those parks have a trash problem, it's because Trump's administration cut funding to the park service (https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administr...), which maintains those parks directly since they are federally-owned).

Those damn far-right nazis, picking up litter in the park...it's the end of democracy ; ) Only MSNBC could put a negative spin on that....thanks for the link, I had a good laugh.

I didn't think anyone has accused our men and women in the armed services of being Nazis... At least around here. So I have no idea where that came from.

But it is interesting to observe this administration, which ostensibly is anti-waste (given the started goals of DOGE), replacing park service employees with far more expensive Marines on deployment for something as far from national defense as trash duty. Unless those scraps of candy wrapper and discarded straws are packing a lot of firepower these days...

I'm just saying, if he's going to deploy them for trash duty, why not deploy them to rake the forest floor like he said someone should do? Especially since his administration is currently pulling active firefighters off the front lines of fighting a fire because they've decided that deportation is a higher priority than protecting American property and lives (https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/us/washington-fire-detain-wor...).

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