Who says liberal leftists are NOT stooopid?! California is a mess specifically because of what rich, guilt-ridden leftists have demanded of government: nanny-state infringement of freedom and confiscatory taxes.
So, the Leftist idiots get exactly what they want...and then decide things are awful and it is time to move away...
and repeat all the same mistakes in the Midwest!!!
We have relatives who lived in San Francisco, and then escaped to Fresno, which was better, but they are somewhat trapped by their own bad decisions and fear of change.
When we visited them in San Francisco a few years ago, the mother of the clan was crying to us, after
another homosexual, completely naked, and uncircumsized male couple (except for hats and sandals) had sauntered by us and her grandchildren. "I would love to move to Ohio: I HATE this town so much! But...I don't know if we could get jobs there..."
She was paying $3500. a month to live in a 2-bedroom slum apartment, where her two incompetent 30-something children were living with two grandchildren. We told her it would be easy to find jobs, and they would not be living in poverty, given the much improved cost-of-living.
But her children did not want to leave "all their friends." They ended up in Fresno, where at least homosexuals do not walk around naked.
Yes, they vote Democrat!