Escape from LA...Again???
I Had A Dream, Which Would Make a Great Film
The Los Angeles mayoral race is being questioned before half the ballots are even counted.
Democrats have spent years warning that election denialism is a threat to democracy. Republicans have spent years insisting elections can’t be trusted. Now nobody trusts anybody. Especially the media.
Welcome to America, 2026.
Imagine this: somehow Nithya Raman surges into second place bouncing media darling Spencer Pratt off the November election against Karen Bass. Social media explodes. The city fractures into competing realities. One side screams voter fraud. The other screams voter suppression. Every ballot becomes evidence. Every vote count becomes a conspiracy. Everyone is suspect.
The institutions don’t have enough credibility left to calm anyone down. Thanks to legacy media — they are the enemy after all.
Then like a wildfire, neighborhood by neighborhood erupts. Madness ensues. The streetlights get shot out. No one feels safe. Tribes begin to form.
[SIDEBAR] Only in the daytime when LA is 75 degrees and sunny, the streets are calm. Heck, it’s why we live here. Yet, at dusk, well, the mood shifts. The night breeds contempt. The mood darkens and…
Suddenly, LA is a hellscape. Think reverse BLM meets Rodney King Riots meets Eat the Rich. Only the rich are the ones threatening to do some eating. It’s tribal politics colliding with class warfare, racial grievance, dueling influencers, and a collapsing faith in government.
Oh, and did I mention the press is really to blame for all of this?
Imagine a remake of Escape from New York, Meets Escape from LA set against the backdrop of a once fabulous, creative city desperately struggling to survive the out-of-control crime, homelessness, and political dysfunction. Alas…blue cities.
Working title: Escape from L.A. Again???
The truly dystopian part isn’t whether the election was stolen.
It’s that half the country will believe it was, and the other half will believe the people questioning it are the real threat.
When nobody trusts the outcome, the game never ends.
They used to say, “All politics is local.”
Elections matter—until they don’t.
And… scene.
That’s a wrap.
Whoever you voted or are rooting for this election cycle — if you haven’t read my memoir, this might be the best time to do so. Click here.