Wal, you have the order entirely backwards. I am not charging children with anything. Even when children are cruel, angry, prideful, envious or thieves, they are still children. They don't know better. They cannot distinguish nuances, nor can they conceive of things framed outside of black or white. Either or. And so, even when the worst of their nature emerges we show them love, compassion, empathy and grace even as we discipline them.
But these politicians act as if they are children. They conduct themselves with all of the naivety, cruelty and wanton disregard for others as children, but they lack all innocence and any excuse. Their choices, the politicians and voters, have continued to disregard all wisdom and morality. The compounding problems have piled up for years, and now the inevitable outcome has come to pass. So, I say again: California has to burn. There is no capacity to contain it, it has every factor in favor of conflagration, so it will burn. Until the consequences of pride and greed are consumed in the fire.
The fire isn't even the thing these people should fear the most even given its preeminent threat. What they should truly fear is that none of the them will learn that they caused it, and life in California will continue as it was before.