Fellow humans, the situation is dire. The fanaticism of the Republican machine in the California Legislature is allowing a minority to wreck the golden state.
Their super-rich, former action star and body builder leader, last seen racing internal combustion vehicles along a channelized stretch of the Los Angles River and riding a horse into the glass elevators in the Hotel Bonaventure, has an apocalyptic plan to shut down over 200 state parks, including the new Los Angeles Historic State park and the Rio de Los Angeles State park. We wrote a report on the need for and potential of these new urban parks.
As a social darwinist cyborg, he perhaps hopes to disconnect us from nature and to close public spaces where people from all walks of life can hike and picnic on an equal footing.
To counter this menace, we need two brave volunteers. One will travel back in time to 2003 to stop Schwarzenneger from seizing power. The other will venture further backwards in the timestream, to 1973, to prevent proposition 13 from passing and condemning the state to a boom-bust budget process tied too closely to income tax receipts. Due to the complex paradoxes of the time-space continuum, neither of you will be able to return to the present. But we will memorialize your contributions to humanity, and, to assist you in your task, take action ourselves to save the state’s parks.
