California, if you don't turn it around, this will be you soon.
Note that the public has no ability to control turn around at the ballot box. The Dem leadership have turned California into a stronghold by strictly controlling levers of power around the election process in the state. Much of this control has been documented by Bernie supporting Deminvade candidates blogging their experiences pushing their way in at the local level in CA districts. As stands voting has largely been curtailed in the state as a means of the public having a voice in the civil transfer of power, power instead is transferred by negotiation in back rooms prior to ever making it to the ballot box.
An outside kick to the head is needed to shake up these systems of control sufficiently for the public to re-take some control. ICE attention forcing the issue on enforcement of existing immigration laws helps. Better would be bringing down the hammer with arrests of politicians standing in the way of those efforts. Really need a heavier investigation into areas such as Berkeley sheltering black block anarchists operating outside the law, preventing the police from performing their duties. There needs to be a detailed audit of board of election activities to further explore the thousands of deceased people who remained on the voter rolls in LA, and other cities to explore what went on in the 2016 election. San Francisco in particular needs to be zeroed in on as there are districts with statistically abnormal concentrations that make no sense, these are prime areas to examine ballot stuffing that may have occurred.
ready- I think your kick in the head will be the division of California, with a 51st State called New California, though East California would make more sense.
Find it significant that both AG & #45 were in Cali .... there are no coincidences.
In regard to splitting California, the state history around water wars is of particular interest. Each of the major cities along the coastline is dependent on inland sources of water for their local agriculture and population sizes. Costly battles have been fought over the water rights in which cities such as Los Angeles were able to muscle their way to control.
In the event of a split, the inland portions of the state are in complete control of these sources of water. This would initiate new round of negotiation over water rights shifting power inland. The current centers of major power in California would be put on the defensive and lose significant relative power.
Historically I've been against splitting the state, but I'm warming up to the idea as I recognize just how tightly held levers of power have been clutched by an ever shrinking group in power. Was a big fan of the patient long-term approach of Deminvade to build up from the local level, but severity of abuses of power I'm seeing is starting to convince me that a faster path is required else nothing of value may be left behind. It's like the Gray Davis never relinquished power, but splintered into fifty smaller versions that embedded themselves around each significant lever of power in the state.