[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- '...the locals are being worn down by bums, chaos, drugs, assaults, and robberies, and yet still can't change their voting patterns.

That's the whole thing in a nutshell.

A little Free Republic drama in script form:

Patient: Doctor! Doctor! It hurts when I do this.
Doctor: So, don't do that.
Patient: What kind of advice is that!!!!

[PGR88]

...the locals are being worn down by bums, chaos, drugs, assaults, and robberies, and yet still can't change their voting patterns.

I'm not even sure anymore that Californians vote for this. California led the nation in the 2000s, and was a shining example for leftists in 2020, with 1000 tweaks and distortions to electoral systems, from corruption of voter rolls, automatic registration, ballot harvesting, mass mail-in voting with meaningless verification, no ID voting, extending election periods, etc. etc..

When Californians do surprise and vote against a leftist initiative (like gay marriage) TPTB have a court declare it all invalid anyway.