you seem to really struggle with understanding lagging effects. You see - California is an economic super power today thanks to the work republican government put into it in 1900s. Likewise, if California was ahead of the curve in their nanny state on smoking cigarettes in the 1990's... we wouldn't see the impact of that for 20 or 30 years. It has nothing to do with the complete train wreck of the current government, and the lagging effects will make themselves clear over time (as they've already begun to do so)