Los Angeles 2025 and Dresden 1945 — Cities Burned by Politicians’ Evil Choices
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The ruins of Dresden in 1945 after Allied bombing.
By John Zmirak Published on January 10, 2025
No decent American feels anything but empathy for the victims of California’s fires, whose origins are murky and may in fact come down to arson.
I’m getting emails from colleagues and friends who live in the affected region; they are scrambling to gather their children, their pets, and family photos and heirlooms as quickly as possible, then flee to safety. On X, I see people keening as their churches, schools, and neighborhoods all crumble into cinders. I remember how I felt when my historic parish church, St. Agnes, burned down before my eyes in 1992, but I can only just begin to imagine Angelenos’ suffering.
Obviously, we should be calling on God to bless all these Americans, and looking for ways to help them. It’s tempting to leave things there, at the level of “thoughts and prayers,” perhaps with a check sent to some reputable charity or an offer of shelter to someone you know who needed to flee his home.
But we can’t stop there forever.
Democrats, You Did This
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