4+ years ago, my mother came to visit me in SoCal and we gave her a tour of everything we could think of: from Venice Beach and Santa Monica to Palm Springs with its gated communities, the shock of going from the desert to the snowed peak of Mt. San Jacinto, a trip to the Ontario Mills mall at the peak of the Christmas shopping season, and then a ride on the Scenic Route 74 through godforsaken places like Perris, Hemet, and Lake Elsinore. A scenic route it is, but you also get to see plenty of trailer/mobile home parks and lots of poverty.

Bush is a symptom, not the disease.