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as if the natural beauty was what people allude to in California's failure

Which aspect of California, the world’s fifth largest economy and largest economic powerhouse in the entire nation, doubling the GDP of the next largest state economy, makes it a failure? 

An economy that is larger than India and the UK. An economy the country heavily relies upon for computers, entertainment, food, military defense, ports of trade, mobility, and so much more?

Abandon the rhetoric that’s being shoved down your throat by propagandists and think for yourself.

As a lifelong California resident, I wouldn't say that California is a failure, but I would say that woke politics have continued failing in California and beyond

Most people reduce that point down to "California is a failure," which I don't think is true

You’re right that the performance is good and there was never really a “mass exodus”

I’d say that the politics itself is the circus / smoke & mirrors, which hasn’t really accomplished much of anything

From my POV, the CA zeitgeist has stayed mostly the same - progressive politics funded by overly high taxes paid by private sector innovators who stay for the amazing weather

Zeitgeist continually shifts but has no material impact on the overall performance of the state. That’s all smoke an mirrors, a circus. 

Even the supposed “mass exodus” failed to unseat the state’s immense power even on a global scale.