The political commentator Sam Francis described the dominant mode of governance today as “anarcho-tyranny,” in which chaos is carefully fostered by the authorities, and certain kinds of lawlessness above all, to maintain tighter control over the nation’s tax base. Francis was concerned particularly with law enforcement, and how petty and violent crime are allowed to flourish, even as the law is harshly enforced against the taxpaying middle classes for things like tax violations and affronts to the new civic religion of political correctness. Average Joe taxpayer is literally “scared straight”: hemmed in on one side by cutthroats on the street, and on the other by cutthroats in cheap suits working in offices for the government.
That incompetent disaster-management might have a role to play in keeping people in line, and even in punishing political opponents, doesn’t seem all that fat-fetched to me.
My latest detailed analysis for INFOWARS.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/newsoms-fiddle-maybe-theres-more-to-the-la-fires-than-official-incompetence