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I'm a native Californian and I'm not suffering. None of my friends, family, former co-workers and acquaintances are suffering. We are all middle class with university+ education. Even the "poor" in Watts and Oakland are FAR better off than the middle classes of the rest of the world.

Politics don't change much, even in the golden state.
Folks rave and rant, scream and holler, but if they did their economic homework, that is, education, job, savings, etc., they are just fine.

Screaming and carrying on makes them feel better, I suppose, but, other than that it serves no purpose other than to show the world how SPOILED they are.
They remind me of Calvin and Hobbs.

I would disagree with that assessment of California. I think it is changing quickly. My son is 19, and when he started high school at his private Christian high school, most of the kids were prett,y conservative. My daughters are 3 grades below him, and now most of the kids are very liberal.

When we first bought our home 20 years ago, we coukd easily do it on our engineer salaries and then we could afford for me to quit working. My son chose to go to college in Texas because it will help him get a job in Texas where he will be able to buy a house on his salary. He would not be able to buy one in California.

Then there are the multitude of little laws that are increasingly limiting our freedom from not being able to have a fire to plastic bag bans.

When our daughters graduate from high school next year, we will move out of California and probably to Texas.

I see you never talk to the “lower classes” in the labor market; people like heavy duty truck drivers, equipment operators, concrete workers, carpenters, plumbers, welders etc. ad-nausium.
I would be willing to bet you have one of those really hard jobs; like creative consultant or contract administrator that require a high level of key board skills and the ability to use 30 dollar words where a simple yes or no would do.
You sound like an over educated Santa Monica snob to me.
Just in case it never enters into your closed little world, the people who provide the goods and services you would find life very difficult without, are having a hard time of it out there.
I am also a native Californian, been here for the last 65 years and I worked with those people every day.
I heard about and had to work with the regulations they had to labor under; the taxes from workers comp to business licensing, hireing regulations to ridiculous law suits, permitting process's to corrupt officials.
For the last 30 years at least, the state of California has made working people's lives as miserable as possible short of driving them all out.
The ones who could leave have left and taken an awful lot of jobs and skills with them. California has become a well fare joke in all the more normal states.
We never have enough money to fix the pot holes in the roads, but we always have the money for a clean needle program for drug addicts and condoms for K-12 kids?
We always have money in the budget for free breakfast, lunch and supper for the illegal aliens in our taxpayer funded schools but not enough to repair and maintain bridges and infrastructure?
We are currently paying some of the highest taxes in the world, so where is the money going?
Whats wrong with the current government in Sacramento that they could take what used to be a state with an economy larger than a lot of entire countries and turn it into a net debtor third world sh#thole?
When you elect idiot socialists and Stalinist’s and you have a newer population that is only interested in free stuff this is what you get.