Democrats Killed Los Angeles And No One In Power Cares

Derek Hunter / Townhall Opinion

The horror that has hit Los Angeles is something we haven’t seen since Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over that lantern in 1871. Back then, Chicago burned to the ground and roughly 300 people died. That was more than 150 years ago, things were different then, and things are very different now. There is literally zero reason for a repeat, in any respect, of what happened in Chicago, and yet we are getting just that because of the mentality of the radical progressive leftists who’ve run that city for all but 8 of the last 64 years.

The Great Chicago Fire makes sense in a weird way. Wood and brick were the building materials of choice back then, and wood burns like mad. There were no zoning laws to speak of; buildings were clustered together because “traffic” was a bunch of horses stopping for water or a poop. Go to any old town’s “historic district,” and you’ll see what I mean – it is not rare to find “roads” or alleys where you or a friend can touch buildings on both sides of the street.

When fire hit one house, it risked wiping out the block or the section of town for those very reasons. Add in the infancy and luddite nature of the fire fighting profession and technology and it was a recipe for disaster. Almost every major city around back then has some (much smaller) version of the Great Chicago Fire.