I ran into a
Victor Davis Hanson speech last evening that addresses this exact thing. The divide between the decision-makers and the areas affected by their utopian schemes is growing - Hanson called California a "bifurcated state", working as he does in the rich branch, living in the poor one. There is wealth in that state at a fantastic level and they're broke. It happened, as the old story of the bankrupt rich man goes, "slowly at first and then all at once."
The magnitude of the disaster is such that surrounding states won't be able to help, neither in the way of natural resources such as water and power, nor in the way of buttressing a creaky financial system. The big guy is too big to carry out of the burning building. Not much you can do.
The magnitude of the disaster is such that surrounding states won't be able to help Why would we?
We didn't make the problem.
We warned against the problem.
It's not OUR Problem!
It was in your power to create the problem, it's in YOUR power to fix the problem.
Fix it, get back to us when you're done and have learned your lesson.