So California is beyond hope? Or are you pleased with the direction your state is taking?
You, cake_crumb, give the impression that all is lost, and without a "liberal" in power California can't maintain.
NO! You are not paying attention.
I am talking about the leftist propaganda machine, which despite 9/11/01, is still cranking along under the globally financed Third Way Movement. It may be burning a little oil now, and have developed a few squeaks and squeals, but it's still with us and still powerful. It will continue to be so for some years to come, because it's an internationally recogized weapon against evil capitalism. Hollywood is it's heart, but I would make the same prediction on many other places in this country.
You know why Bubba managed to spend so many years throwing drunken frat parties in the White House as well as I do.
I'm only projecting known, observable, quantifiable behavioral patterns a short way into the future, not giving CA up for lost. I see these same trends wherever there is a fashionable pocket of leftist power in this country.