Unfortunately, sometimes it is simply too late.
When the bulk of "the electorate" are either government-dependent parasites or government-enriched parasites, that doesn't leave much room for normal, honest, hard-working, traditional families to make a correction, no matter how "informed" they are. It comes down purely to a matter of numbers.
In the case of places like New Jersey and California, it's likely high time for the decent people to vacate for greener pastures; maybe head down south. Those who stick around grabbing their ankles may end up like "the last white farmers in Zimbabwe."