Dean Cain predicts the wildfire disaster in California will change the way Hollywood votes
Dean Cain, who grew up in Malibu, California, told Fox News Digital that all the homes he once lived in there and in nearby Pacific Palisades were destroyed this week. Wildfires in the Los Angeles area.
“I ended up having three different houses in Pacific Palisades, one I owned, two I rented and lived in,” Cain said. “Three of those Pacific Palisades” [homes]everything burned, gone. Pacific Palisades looks like someone dropped a nuclear weapon on it and leveled everything. I’ve never seen anything like that. Also, the three houses I lived in in Malibu are gone.”
The “Lois & Clark” star called the devastation “shocking and horrible, but not unexpected. That’s part of the reason I left California was this perfect storm of mismanagement and leadership failure.”
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Dean Cain, who grew up in Malibu, California, told Fox News Digital that all the homes he once lived in there and in nearby Pacific Palisades were destroyed during this week’s fires. (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Associated Television International | AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Cain said the 2018 Woolsey fire burned his yard, but not his house.
“We’re used to this in Malibu,” he explained. “We’ve got the wind, we’ve got the fire, so we know how to deal with it. But when you’re stripped of all your … tools, no money, no brush clearing, no controlled burns, all those things, you end up in this kind of catastrophic situation.”
Cain said that although his house survived Woolsey Firehis fire insurance was subsequently canceled, adding that it was one of the reasons he left California for Henderson, Nevada, in 2018.
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“Pacific Palisades looks like someone dropped a nuclear weapon on it and just flattened everything,” Cain said. (Michael Ho Wai Lee / Sipa via AP)
“There are so many of us who have shouted from the rooftops, including President Trump, many times, back in the days during his first presidency,” he continued. “He’s saying it, mismanagement is going to cost you. Taking money out of the fire budget is going to cost you. Uncontrolled burning is going to cost you. Failure at the water reservoir, that’s going to cost you.”
Cain laid the blame squarely on the Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom.
“You screwed up, Gavin Newsome. You screwed up,” he said. “There was a lot of water. Last year was a record amount of precipitation or the year before last was a record amount of precipitation. Melt the snow, accumulate water.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, right, surveys the fire damage Wednesday. (MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)
Cain said his water bill was in the thousands a month when he lived in Malibu and he couldn’t get fire insurance for less than about $40,000 a year.
His son helped him realize that he should leave the country by reminding him to hold on “complain about tax policy, lack of common sense. Why do we live there?”
“I asked myself, ‘Why are we here? What am I doing?'” he said. “And it was strange to leave my home forever, but now to come here [Henderson, Nevada] and to be in this wonderful home with a great policy, you know, the castle doctrine, ‘holding on’ and things like that, I say, ‘Wait a minute, this makes perfect sense.’ And then I am horrified to watch the disaster unfold. My heart breaks for the people who are suffering because of this mismanagement. But I hope it will teach them common sense.”
He added that “good times make weak men, and weak men make hard times.”
The remains of Rosenthal Wine in Malibu, California. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
“Weak politics create hard times. We are in difficult times now. We need to have strong people so we can recreate the good times. That’s right. Strong men and women, healthy politics. Everyone will be better off,” Cain said.
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Cain went on to say that he believes liberals in Hollywood tend to “vote for all these things that really don’t affect them,” “but when it affects you — you can’t get a permit to redevelop or your house burns down or people rob you afterwards home – suddenly you love the police, you love the firemen, you love the people you’ve despised for years. You want common sense politics.”
“So when it affects you, your votes change,” he said. “And I think this is going to become a very, very blue state, a lot more red. I hope that California turns purple and I hope that — listen, my heart goes out to those who have lost everything. And I know it will go through years and years of bureaucracy, nightmares, lost memories. It will be one of those catastrophic events in their lives. And I hope that this will wake people up to start voting for policies that make sense, that make sense, and that they’ll prepare for things like this in the future.”
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Flames and smoke billow from structures as the Palisades Fire burns in Southern California on Wednesday. (Reuters/Ringo Chiu)
“So when it affects you, your voices change. And I think this is going to become a very, very blue state, much more red. I hope California turns purple.”
Because he lives in the desert, Cain said he has enough food in his car for several days and that he and his son have cell phones and satellite radios to communicate with each other.
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“It’s not that I’m a survivalist or a prepper, because it’s common sense,” he said.
But Cain said, “when you see a tragedy of this magnitude, you see how incredible the American people are and they come together.”
“And there was an outpouring of support, food, water, necessities,” he added. “We are the nation that gives the most in the history of mankind. We’ll continue to be, you know, as broken as we can be, [but] there are times in natural disasters, in war and things of that nature, where people in the United States come together. And it’s great to see that happening. It will be a very long and difficult journey.”
Beachfront properties were destroyed by the Palisades Fire. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Cain noted that with the nature of the national news cycle, the wildfire devastation will be replaced by more recent news within weeks, “but all these people’s lives have been turned upside down.”
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“I can’t fathom the scale of what happened to Palisades,” he continued. “It’s mind-boggling to me. Palisades High School, Missing. I mean, football games. I played at Palisades High School. Dozens… It’s gone. It just disappeared. It was as if a large part of my childhood had disappeared. I moved away because of the terrible politics. It’s heartbreaking to see this happen. I don’t want to say I told you, but I told you.”
The charred remains of Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, California. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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Cain said his mother, who is with him in Nevada, can’t stop crying as she watches the destruction.
“The house that they built from the ground up… fell apart,” he said, adding, “my mom has been crying for two days.”
Cain added that he felt leaving Malibu for Henderson was “one of the smartest things I’ve ever done.”
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“I feel like I’ve been liberated,” he said. “So many people will say, you got out just in time. And I did. And because I was blessed to have the means and I had a son, my son Christopher said, ‘Dad, let’s go.’ ‘ And life here is so much easier and so much better. Beautiful neighborhoods and so much more value for your dollar… super low taxes compared to California, super low regulations compared to California… we’re in the middle of the desert here in Nevada. We have better rights to water, and water, they say, is expensive here. It’s cheaper for me to get water here than in California… So, absolutely [the] my real move.”
