[alloysteel]

And the “blueist” state of all becomes even more “blue”.

Malefactors of great wealth have made it so. And they somehow believe, they are on a mission to carry out the fundamental transformation they have brought to California, to the entire rest of the country, “for their own good”, of course.

Command-and-control regimes always start out doing things for “the people’s own good”, but somehow, never quite succeed in making that model work. So step by step, more and more authority is accrued to the oligarchy that is in effective control of the day-to-day workings of the Great and Munificent Holy State, a god above all others. Until at last, the serfs can stand it no longer, and plunge into a “nothing left to lose” revolt against the oligarchy.

This never ends well, as witness the French Revolution, which ended up with just a different oligarchy running things. Until the Revolution itself imploded, and a firm military dictatorship took its place.

[Alberta's Child]

I still say that most conservative observers are overlooking the single biggest factor in the rise of leftist politics in the U.S. over the last 50+ years. It's not race, or demographics, or even political partisanship at all. It's URBANIZATION, and California reflects this trend very closely. It became a Marxist state because cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco-Oakland, San Diego, Riverside-San Bernardino, Sacramento and San Jose all major metro areas in the U.S.