We Had Better Learn From the Lesson of Los Angeles

Anyone who grew up watching Dragnet has an idea of what Los Angeles used to be like:

Then liberals got ahold of it. Here’s what it’s like now:

You have no idea how bad Los Angeles, California has gotten unless you’ve visited recently

There are homeless tents as far as the eyes can see

“This is Los Angeles”

Gavin Newsom destroyed California pic.twitter.com/6OWn8FGOsg

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 30, 2026

To glimpse a society’s future, look to its schools. Los Angeles Unified School District is in a financial tailspin as it loses students by the hundreds of thousands and spends a fortune to settle sexual misconduct claims. Chris Bray blames moonbattery:

Remember the list of demands the United Teachers of Los Angeles submitted to the district when the school board proposed to return to in-person learning during the pandemic. They weren’t coming back to the classroom, teachers said, until America defunded the police, imposed punitive taxes on the rich, implemented Medicare for all, gave free homes to all of the homeless, and eliminated all forms of standardized testing. Weirdly, an institution full of hallucinatorily insane actual communists is experiencing a financial crisis.

Teachers are getting laid off because LAUSD cannot afford to pay them. Meanwhile,

The LAUSD’s “Climate Resilience Committee” met on Wednesday afternoon, hashing out agenda items like “climate literacy” and “green schoolyards.” The meeting was staffed by the district Eco-Sustainability Office, led by Chief Eco-Sustainability Officer Christos Chrysiliou. On a base salary last reported a couple years ago at $221,894, his total pay and benefits hit $286,394 in 2024.

Bray visited LAUSD headquarters in an attempt to discover why the FBI was serving search warrants on Superintendent Alberto Carvalho.

I passed the school campus that sits just up the street, and I passed the decrepit RVs that people live in next to the campus. And I stepped through the piles of garbage that the residents of the RVs throw onto the sidewalks. Signs on a school fence warned that the RVs were parked in a “SAFE SCHOOL ZONE” where there would be special penalties for breaking the law. I watched a shirtless dude with an interesting amount of fidgety energy spraypaint a wall near one of the signs, possibly signaling that he wasn’t concerned about the warning.

Law enforcement has been rendered largely irrelevant.

This pile of garbage from homeless people and drug addicts sits outside the back end of the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex, by the way, where students can attend several different specialized high schools, including the School of Social Justice.

It isn’t just Lost Angeles.

Blue states, and blue cities, have gone floridly and relentlessly insane. … Blue state leaders have meetings about demanding that the climate not be allowed to change anymore, surrounded by homeless people dying of drug overdoses in piles of garbage.

Bray concludes:

[T]he madness and depravity of blue states and cities is a political liability that has to be tied around the necks of Democratic Party politicians.

Democrats have reduced many American cities to dystopian hellholes out of a grim postapocalyptic science fiction movie. Let’s not let them do it to the rest of the country.

On tips from RoCar, David Kight, and Angel.

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