California Is Not A Democracy - balajis.com

California is not a democracy. It’s a one-party state.

Because California Democrats do not hold competitive multiparty elections. No matter how the people vote, a Democrat always wins. The real election is thus actually a selection, where candidates are chosen1 before the primary in a smoke-filled room by the Party. And around the time one-party control was consolidated in the early 2010s, governance started to dramatically worsen, and California's growth rate suddenly leveled off:

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Balaji.

It's not even a one party state; more like a 1/2 party state -- the stupider half. If it weren't the most physically glorious part of North America, nobody would live here at all.