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How California’s self-sabotage by the left made it a national disgrace

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By any measure, California is a failed state — and a national embarrassment.

What happened to the nation’s most richly naturally endowed, and once best-governed, state?

The left took total control — after millions of the embattled middle class fled.

Millions more impoverished immigrants, legal and illegal, took their place.

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The result was a neo-feudal society that’s hardly democratic.

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As upper-bracket taxpayers fled, taxes rose on those who remained to fund expanding entitlements for newly arrived poor would-be residents.

In turn, even more of the middle class left.

The remaining pyramidal economic structure ensured a Democratic monopoly — further entrenched by changing balloting laws, gerrymandering voting districts, vote harvesting and ignoring or undermining popular referenda.

For example, in 2014, Californians voted for Proposition 1, a $7.5 billion water bond designed to solve the state’s chronic water storage deficit.

Included was $2.7 billion specifically designated for new reservoirs: The last major reservoir had been built in 1980, when California had roughly half its current population.

But bureaucracies, elected officials and........

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