Anita Chabria: I went to the trucker convoy. It was scary, but not for the reason you think

Donny Thomas and I agreed on many things when we spoke at the California Capitol this week. That's alarming when you consider he's part of the so-called People's Convoy that has crisscrossed the nation in recent days protesting coronavirus health measures and serving as a echo chamber of conspiracy theories and propaganda.

Standing next to his silver BMW 550i, with "free your body and mind" scrawled in pink and yellow on the rear window, he and I concurred that we are fooling ourselves if we think billionaires have the best interests of society at heart.

We also both believe there are bad politicians in both parties. As Donny put it, they're "two wings of one bird. It's a lot of bird poop."

As we watched about 100 of his compatriots gathered on the side stairs of the building, shouting through bullhorns about mandates that largely don't exist and the consequences of treason, we also both agreed the world needs , more hands in the earth, outdoorsy stuff to get us away from technology and social media. He'd like to see us turn football stadiums into community plots.