Really the only thing that separates CA from the rest of the failed states you cite, is that we have a functioning economy. Failing that, CA is just like NJ, IL and a few others. But even CA’s good economy won’t, in the end, be enough to save it from the fate of the other mega-blue states, because we have a populace that’s even more dependent on the nanny state, coupled with PE unions bent on being rich at taxpayers expense.
We had a functioning economy in NJ as well - then we taxed it to the point where it left for greener pastures. CA faces the same danger; businesses and their employees are being forced to foot the bills for a rapidly expanding class of people that will contribute NOTHING. Here in NJ the straw that is breaking the camel’s back is public school funding; years ago the makers’ children filled schools, now the makers often are childless and funding the education of takers’ children.