Ironic that the question comes up as a question after the USSR, S. Africa and other socialist dictatorships....
Venezuela is but a preview of what California shall become, if the headlong rush to create a socialist state there is not halted soon.
But I see no way to break the oligarchy that now controls the state short of bringing them up on some kind of Federal RICO charges for malfeasance of office.
Starting with the California Democrat members of Congress and the Senate, the governor, the majority leaders in the California Assembly and Senate, the mayors of San Francisco and Los Angeles, and their allied minions.
“Sanctuary” cities and an entire state are no sanctuaries at all.