California would have to completely overturn its society in order to reform. Every California institution, public and private, will have to completely purge its leadership.
More than that, the pipelines that feed into leadership positions in every sphere of life will also have to be purged.
We are talking about a whole couple of generations of educated people that will need to be “lost”, or, rather, thrown away, as spoiled material.
Thats what it will take to fix California, and by extension the bulk of the United States.
Purging leadership won’t be enough because those people will inevitably find their way back into government.
No, we are past the point where much more aggressive actions are required.