Steve, the other side of this tragedy is that it was a total disaster under the governance of Mr. Newsome, a very pro-woke guy who was more interested into the pronouns to apply to transgenders, to defund the police, to knee to black lives matters, than to build up an effective strategy against fires that have always plagued the LA area.
It's incredible that in such a rich city, replete with very wealthy celebrities, where state taxes are among the highest in the USA, the elementary phenomenon of fire could cause such devastation. Very bad governance, even considering to extreme conditions where the fires developed.
I don't know about Mr. Trump's attitude, but Newsome and other governors have been pretty hostile to him since he was elected, this is maybe his likewise hostile response. Not the spiritual response we would like to except, sure.
People like to live with Nature around them and not in concrete jungles. Well some people. It creates fire risks but that is a risk people are prepared to take to be surrounded by natural beauty. We have huge fires here in Australia but people still want to live in natural settings.
Also people who are karmically confused re: gender deserve respect and support from the community in the 21st century. My gay son reminded me last night that not so long ago people were jailed for being gay. C'mon do we want to go back to the dark ages? Black lives do matter. How on earth can they not? If being woke means trying to take an understanding of the issues that affect minority groups then we should all get on board.
I don't really understand confusion about gender identity but I do feel this would be a huge problem to somebody facing it. I dressed as a female at a high school fancy dress party and found it strangely liberating. Sri Rama Krishna also spent some time in his initial sadhana dressing as a woman and spending all his time with females. They accepted him as their own, he would even escort one of them to her husband's bed for marital relations. He said cross-dressing helped him see all women as Divine Mother and advised some of his male devotees that it helps overcome lust for the other sex.
