As Aldous Huxley observed, there's a special type of madness one finds in California that causes one to stop and reflect.
'White walls can be a fresh start.' Is a particularly chilling phrase. A reminder of the great puritan upsurge of religious fanaticism in Europe, where the murals on the inside of our churches were whitewashed and the coloured windows smashed, the statues brought crashing down... all in the name of what was 'Right' and Holy.
The left's embrace of identity politics and political correctness, is really rather frightening.