The same thing that has brought down the rest of the USA.
LIBERALISM
Now that we know the problem; we MUST resolve it.
We MUST start encouraging, supporting & ELECTING true blue conservatives to local, state and federal offices!
It ain't rocket science! LOL
Sir, I always appreciate your optimism, but even VDH, the most incorrigible optimist of the bunch, has finally come to write California’s post-mortem. What comes next is anyone’s guess, most to the realistic scenarious look pretty grim to me.