It really is depressing. Immigration is an issue. But the state has been equally damaged by these east coast liberal transplants that have control of the CRP and think the only solution is to move further to the left, meanwhile using their big government representatives to fund their investment du jour. We slide further into socialism and they laugh all the way to the bank. WASS!
Hey! Think back to when CA was pretty satisfied with Edmund G. "Pat" Brown who presided over an exemplary job of the three most basic roles for government... water, roads and schools!!! CA was the shining "Golden State" and somebody came out of the shadow of Barry Goldwater and built on Brown's success with ideas like I described above.
But it took inspiration and perspiration but it also took someone telegenic because that's when we really hit the TV age which then became the only way one could campaign in such a huge geographically diverse state. No one can prophesy, but looking to the past for forgotten techniques and strategies that work can be useful... You can't beat something with nothing, or no serious attempt to change things!!!
I'm not lecturing, just thinking out loud, so to type...