LA as a future Baltimore, Rob? Like a snowball in hell. Politicians or not, apathy or not, LA is a nut magnet. It’s like an expression I once heard:
“Whatever I go, whatever I do, I create a little dent in the Earth, and all the loose nuts and bolts come rolling down.”
This place will never have a population implosion so long as global warming doesn’t kick in too much, the sun keeps shining and there are no monsoons or major earthquakes to level the place off (though, in all honesty, it could be an improvement.) That’s because LA is a land of dreams, and the Three Stooges could be running affairs, and people would still come flocking here.