When Elephants Fight…

Years ago, I was in Africa on a research trip. (I was in my early twenties.) One of the elders of a village told me an old saying that I will never forget, “When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.” What he meant was that when powerful political leaders fight among themselves, the little people below get trampled.

The recent failure to get the State Infrastructure Bond placed on the June ballot is sadly an appropriate example of this old African saying. (Here's what Housing California had to say about it.)

While our political leaders in Sacramento sat in meeting rooms arguing over the details, and ultimately decided not to put this bond forward, the poor and the homeless of our state continue to suffer without affordable housing and services.

The little people suffer.

(And people wonder why we aren’t solving homelessness…)