Yuval Levin's article in The Weekly Standard is a well researched and written column. It is above the attention span of most of the left, who think like Bernie Sanders, ... "HANDS OFF MY SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE & MEDICAID.", but raise taxes to pay for it!, ... is the only way to keep those programs.

It is too bad that most l*****ts approach any attempts to strengthen and save Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid with the attitude that the only thing needed is expansion of benefits and larger and more punitive taxes on the middle class.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/yuval-levin/the-entitlement-crisis-is-real-and-its-worse-than-you-think

Solutions are available and possible, but both the socialist democrats and the c*******ts in our government have no interest in fixing the problem, at all. Since the only compromise the l*****ts see is totally increasingly taxes the working man into move those three programs into solvency, the Right is unwilling to even come to the negotiating table.

Besides, the socialist democrats and the c*******ts believe that if the Republic can be forced into insolvency and collapse through inflation, a wonderful socialist/c*******t government will rise from the ashes. Obamacare was a big advance for that hope, and single payer is the next.

Perhaps you could better understand that California is in large part responsible for the current state of the forests there, and in particular for decisions to shut down canals and let Parts of California start to revert to desert. It is totally responsible for the importation of eucalyptus trees that contribute so much to the current situation.

Much of what is happening to the land in the ”world’s fifth largest economy” is a direct consequence of the ridiculous environmental and planning policies it has imposed on itself and tries to impose on the rest of us.

Sure, we have sympathy - but we are also very well aware that Californians have shot themselves in both feet with the politicians they have elected an yet they expect the rest of us taxpayers to bear a big part of the costs of containment and rebuilding.

Idaho has fire problems too, some of the problems arise directed from environmental policies and environmental activists exported from California to our state.

http://www.son-riseranch.com/blog/why-are-the-western-states-burning

Some good friends of mine are loggers and when a fire got started near I-90 on National Forest land, they mobilised their own equipment and staff to cut a fire break and stop the fire in its tracks. Note, they did not harvest or steal any lumber - just stopped the fire, which otherwise would have spread to destroy nearby communities.

They came within a whisker of getting prosecuted because Forest Service policy now is to let forests just burn.

Until we get sense and reason restored in the US - which by and large means reversing policies promoted by the East and West Coasts - sympathy could start to wane.

That’s even before we get into the “conspiracy theories” of geoengineering and social engineering to bring about Agenda 21 (another Californian export).

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Malibu burning: Cher, Lady Gaga, Kardashians fear for homes, Caitlyn Jenner’s home destroyed
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Kim Kardashian and Lady Gaga were among thousands fleeing their homes on Friday as a fast-moving wildfire engulfed Malibu and nearby celebrity neighborhoods.

Kardashian, who on Thursday evacuated the home she shares in nearby Calabasas with Kanye West, tweeted on Friday that she “heard the flames have hit our property… but now are more contained and have stopped.”

The entire 12,000-strong population of Malibu, which stretches 27 miles (43.5 km) along the Pacific Ocean in Southern California and up into the Santa Monica mountains, was placed under mandatory evacuation on Friday as the Woolsey fire exploded overnight.

The City of Malibu’s Twitter account said the fire was burning out of control.

Malibu and Calabasas are home to hundreds of celebrities and entertainment executives attracted by its ocean views, rolling hills and large, isolated estates. Current and former residents include Barbra Streisand, Tom Hanks, Judd Apatow and Britney Spears.

Celebrity website TMZ reported that the Malibu home of Caitlyn Jenner, America’s best-known t*********r activist, was destroyed by the flames on Friday. Her publicist could not confirm the status of her house, but told Reuters that Jenner was safe.

Residents posted pleas on social media for help evacuating horses and other large animals, while long lines of traffic clogged the only coastal highway in and out of Malibu.

Cher, who said she had lived in Malibu since 1972, tweeted that the wildfire was coming close to her home, although she said she was not on the property.

“Friends houses have burned. I can’t bear the thought of there being no Malibu,” the singer posted.

Lady Gaga posted a video on her Instagram account saying she had evacuated her Malibu home on Friday, and showing images of dark billowing smoke overhead.

Movie director Guillermo del Toro tweeted that he had abandoned his vast “Bleak House” museum collection of fantasy and horror memorabilia.

“Bleak House and the collection may be endangered but the gift of life remains,” tweeted del Toro, director of Oscar best picture winner “The Shape of Water.”

The Malibu area is also home to dozens of filming locations. One of them, the Western Town at Paramount Ranch where television series “Westworld” is filmed, was destroyed, according to the Santa Monica Mountains Twitter account.

The mansion used to shoot “The Bachelor” TV series was “in grave danger,” ABC television executive Robert Mills posted on Twitter.

Alyssa Milano, a leading force in the #MeToo social movement against sexual harassment, asked for help getting five horses out of the area and said she had taken her “kids, dogs, computer and my Doc Marten boots.”

Rainn Wilson, former star of “The Office,” singer Melissa Etheridge, and Roma Downey, the wife of “The Apprentice” producer Mark Burnett, all said they had scrambled to evacuate at short notice.

Reporting by Jill Serjeant and Lisa Richwine; Editing by Sandra Maler

Try not to state your opinion as fact. ie. The real movers of this country is the deep state operatives that want full socialism/c*******m regardless of how you try to diffuse the real intent of the movement now in place.. The placated dems/rino’s, republicans are the puppets... Why do you think we never get any real change on the hill?? Until Trump, the one they are trying so desparately to take down..He doesn’t play by their rules and does have them wallowing in their own feces and kicking their own butts.....

You obviously don't seem to understand what a democracy is, and to how it relates to our republic.
Some framing-era commentators made arguments that distinguished "democracy" and "republic", for example:

John Adams used the term "representative democracy" in 1794; so did Noah Webster in 1785; so did St. George Tucker in his 1803 edition of B****stone; so did Thomas Jefferson in 1815. Tucker's B****stone likewise uses "democracy" to describe a representative democracy, even when the qualifier "representative" is omitted.

In the Federalist (No. 10), as well as other numbers of the Federalist papers a "representative democracy" was understood as a form of democracy, alongside "pure democracy": A representative democracy is less explicit but in tune with a considered republic, we happen to be a Constitutional Federal Republic which falls under the umbrella of a democracy, a government elected by its people.