The problem with the USA and particularly states like California is that they believe we live in a democracy, when in fact, we do not. The Founding Fathers of this republic new better.
Of course, when the Democrats lose on something like homosexual marriage, they use the courts in an undemocratic manner to dismiss what a democratic vote decides.
The Left adheres to principles of Bolshevism, which operated on “democratic centralism”: a democratic majority vote ruled, but that which was voted on was determined by a central party (ensuring any outcome would be acceptable to the practically ruling oligarchy) - to wit, tyranny of the majority pre-determined by a dictatorship. Hence the Left’s loud demands for “democracy”, yet propensity to ignore undesired outcomes by selective abuse of the judicial system.
So the Founding Fathers built a government devoted to individual freedom/liberty, allowing for democratic voting locally but filtering it thru representatives and a strictly limiting Constitution. And so the Left is seeking every conceivable way to subvert the existing system, to twist it into democratic centralism - popular votes on pre-chosen faux alternatives.