The only way out is to elect Conservatives.
There are no Conservative Democrats in 2019.
The Cali population has been thoroughly brainwashed into believing that Republicans are EEEEEEVIL.
Therefore no Conservatives will be elected, and the death spiral will continue.
Elections will not fix the problems. The people who went to California brought problems with them. The current Government is a symptom of those problems, more than a cause.
Too many people want freebies at the expense of somebody else, and will support a Government that promises such wonderful things. It doesn't work, of course. But people won't stop reaching for it.
Limited Government powers helps to delay the rise of an insulated parasite class, but does not ultimately stop the progression of the illness. We are approaching end-stages now. The patient is terminal and only palliative measures are available.
The way out is "collapse and rebuild". It is the work of two or three generations at the very least. None of us can live long enough to see the results.
It is a matter of faith, that the good guys will win in the end. Holding on to that faith, and behaving accordingly, may be the best we can do.
The dems have skillfully purged most (sort of) free-thinking dems who are remotely conservative using the sock puppet firebrand's such as AOC to label them unfit for socialism. Like there's something wrong with that. Harrumph.
The dems are the evil ones but they are not stupid in their methodology to achieve their goals using 'BAMN'; By Any Means Necessary. The right (conservatives) cannot deploy this mentality because it would mean crossing a line they simply will not cross.
The leftists are sociopaths by nature so they have no moral compass to stop them. Just the lust for more and more power until it finally consumes them in the process. California is what happens when they get unchecked power. They destroy everything they touch and then feel no remorse because in their sociopath mind's; they feel no sense of guilt with no conscious. In a way this is their big advantage over the right; conservatives in particular. We simply won't go there unless we have been left with no other choice. Then we kill them just as we did to the Nazis (whom the left reminds me of in so many ways) and anyone else we go to war with. This means in the short run they may win but in the long run we will. It takes a lot to get us to that point but when we finally do; batten the hatches and prepare for heavy rolls.
The irony is they project what 'they are' on us all the time by calling us "Nazis". I wonder if they know this at some deep level subconsciously even though they don't have a conscious in the normal sense.