You could move to Iowa. Buy this beautiful 4-bedroom house for only $159,900 in a quiet little town. Marry a girl who grew up there, have four kids, and pick a job from the booming local job market. Have neighbors who know you by name and bring over tater tot casserole when you have a baby. Go to one of the 7 churches in your town of any denomination you favor. Get breakfast pizza at Casey’s any time of the day. Buy sweet corn from someone’s driveway. Wave at strangers on gravel roads. Go to Friday night football games. Have a neighbor snow-blow your driveway before you even get outside. Let your kids ride bikes around town. Your neighbors know your name. Enjoy a nonexistent crime rate. Pay a mortgage that costs less than most people’s rent. Then 50 years later, you sit on the same front porch with your wife and realize you built a pretty beautiful life. But you won’t.

If I was Nithya Raman, my immediate response to all this would be: "Why should I bother with any of this when you're doing nothing about the endorsed DSA-LA electeds openly campaigning with Karen Bass?"