‘DESTROYED PEOPLE’S LIVES’: Filmmaker calls out LA county's fire management (youtube.com)
Justine Bateman blasts politicians in California for prioritizing non essential things. Called them ‘useless’ and ‘a liability.’ Nice to see someone commonsensical and eloquent use forceful speech, but not out of control. ‘Stop looking at R and D. Look at the person.' We'll see in the next election if there's any effect. America and especially California has had a prolonged period of comfort, where mistakes were not highly costly. I don't think you could really expect most people, being normal people, to be able to even think responsibly about things like this, since even their predecessors in office weren't. To get the kind of person who might have taken precautions, they probably would have had to elect the kind of person they didn't like hear talk, since he would be trying to force them to put resources into things they saw no immediate value for. People criticizing the leader, you elected him freely. There is no measure that can prevent against an incompetant leader if you elect him.
They also mentioned having the honor to resign after such a thing, but guessed these were not the type of people who have an idea of honor in that way so that action wouldn't be likely.