Look Jonathon, if it makes you feel better to think of California as East Germany, go for it. That's not reality. It's an insult to the East Germans and what they went through to make such a claim.
The point is, you are saying people should move back en masse to a place that is arguably one of the least free in the nation. Very few people who
care about their freedom are going to do this. "Well, I'll go somewhere I can't own a gun, and let them confiscate even more of my income in order to give it to illegal immigrants in the hope that after a while that will stop happening."
Pfffft. Get out and let it collapse. Leave it to those who want something for nothing, and those who want to give it to them.