The World as I See It...or What I Discovered on the Way to the Colosseum

  There is a crisis in California...people accept chaos and crisis and THAT is the crisis Endemic corruption and  political   inertia  at a local level make it easy for companies to flout regulations with impunity. It makes it easy for people to be resigned to some fatal view that nothing can be done to change it.   There was a recall election in California on 09/14/21.  The purpose was to provide a means to change course from an incompetent, corrupt government to one of healing and recovery.  Could Californian's reverse the current  trajectory from languishing in the black hole of leadership incompetence to a path  of sustainable growth and prosperity.  But, human beings seem to like the devil they know and thus sometimes, choose the hell of their own making.  There were obstacles to this change...but none more than a citizenry that relies on government for all life decisions.  Citizens who are not taught self reliance, or independence.  Those who derive their entire existence fro