District attorneys bring back dry, boring memories from civics class, but Americans love lawyers. Reading about the devastating earthquake in Turkey which was never covered by the media, it occurred to the lion kingdom that as Calif*'s government has become more & more restrictive in the last 20 years, these supposedly draconian middle east governments are the same as any other.

Whether it was Stalin, Hitler, Saddam Hussein, they all just enacted the will of the people. The general will of the people for the last 6000 years is to achieve total equality. The way to achieve total equality just tends to involve greater restrictions. Any time someone has something that someone else doesn't, it's inequality. All governments have moved to stomp out having stuff other people don't have. It sometimes seems silly, like requiring everyone to wear a hood or banning people from owning computers, not allowing anyone to say sex is determined by genetics, but all those crazy laws are just so no-one has anything that everyone else doesn't have, including brain power.

Someone in Iraq probably liked grilled cheese, thereby creating a disadvantage for people who like BLT, so Saddam Hussein had to chop off his head, fairly, justly.

Americans see Calif* as the role model & see Biden with Calif*'s DA as vice president as the extension of Calif*'s system to the world.  The problem is they haven't really lived in Calif* & don't realize how restrictive & hard it is to get by in the system they want.