@claushoumann Cali loves policies that sound good if you are naive and don't think about it too much. Extensive environmental emphasis, union influence, allowing everybody to have a veto mean they don't build housing, power, or industry. They won't build roads as readily then also can't build rail either leaving miles of idling autos that are worse for everything. Weird resentment at the tech industry that brought them growth in the first place. Predictable urban decay from prop 47 enabled theft rings etc. High taxes for high social service spending but also institutional aversion to any kind of accountability. Just basically a slow motion golden goose feast.