Currently in Los Angeles, we’re experiencing something which the United States hasn’t seen since 1965. The last time anything like this was seen was when President Lyndon Baines Johnson deployed the National Guard to Alabama to protect a Civil Rights march without the consent of Governor George Wallace; a raging racist and segregationist.

That was sixty years ago.

Recently, I had to read an article assigned by a professor of mine which detailed how the United States in recent weeks has been ‘sleep-walking’ into an autocracy with the new Trump Administration. The claim itself isn’t too far off in my opinion, I do believe we’re heading for a direct autocracy under the 47th President of the United States.

After months of negotiation and pressure being placed on the United States to enforce a cease-fire deal between Israel and Gaza, it’s finally happened. President Joe Biden and his Administration have been working practically neck over head for the past fifteen months to bring both parties to the table and come up with an agreement which both sides would agree to without any hassle. President Joe Biden and his Administration successfully delivered such.

Los Angeles sits a-blaze as I write this.

Yesterday, I was under the presumption that Cal Fire and First Responders had found a way to contain the inferno tearing through the Palisades and into the beating heart of Los Angeles. Today, that presumption feels naive. The fire has spread with a vengeance, fueled not just by fierce Santa Ana winds and bone-dry brush but also by years of systemic neglect and misplaced priorities from city leadership.