The choice is between civilization and the sort of moonbattery that dominates California. An aspect of civilization that will be dearly missed if moonbattery prevails is medical care.

From the Los Angeles suburb Huntington Park:

Dr. Tahani Soliman, owner of a Los Angeles County medical practice, has spent years battling a group of unhoused individuals who have turned her rooftop into their own personal space – terrorizing her staff, setting fires, and creating an unsafe work environment, KTLA News reported.

You can call bums “unhoused individuals” or whatever other euphemism you like, but they will still behave like bums.

For years, the self-employed doctor has endured the homeless encampment consistently taking over her building’s roof – stealing electricity, stripping scrap metal from air conditioning units and even starting trash fires.

She puts up barbed wire to stop derelicts from climbing onto her roof from a neighboring parking structure, where they have established a colony. They repeatedly tear it down.

What are you going to do, call the police? This is California. Single-party Democrat rule means the authorities side with the bums.

Dr. Soliman finally gave up after spending over $100,000 on repairs and fencing necessitated by tramps:

‘No protection for my employees, for my patients or my tenants,’ Soliman told KTLA.

‘That’s why I’m going to retire, because of this, I lost everything.’

You can see why the Los Angeles area is second only to the still more liberal San Francisco area for corporate headquarters moving away.

Unfortunately, not everyone is in a position to escape from the inevitable consequences of putting Democrats in power. Still more unfortunately, some who are bring Democrat voting habits with them.

On a tip from R F and WDS 2.0.

Everyone knows that elections have consequences. Yet somehow the consequences manage to take those who voted for them by surprise:

Consumers in Los Angeles County were shocked Tuesday as a new quarter-percent sales tax, ostensibly to raise funds for services for the homeless, went into effect following a referendum in November.

L.A. voters passed Measure A, which replaced and increased an earlier county-wide sales tax for the homeless. That tax, passed a decade ago, failed to stem the growth of the homeless population and may even have encouraged it.

Throw money at homelessness, get more homelessness. California has proven this law to be reliable, even if where the money actually goes remains a mystery:

L.A. residents recently learned that $2.3 billion spent on homeless services in Los Angeles had been unaccounted for — and the money had come from the same sales taxes that referendums like Measure A had been designed to fund.

However, equitable utopia is never more than a few tax increases away, according to the liberal faith.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.