I absolutely don't want California to fail but it seems like the current Government of California sure want it too. Yep, I have a great opportunity with my business but make no mistake our government doesn't make it easy for businesses small or big. I was born here, grew up here and raised my family here. Yes, we can go to other places but is the pain of starting over at 55 worth it? No. The liberals are hell bent into turning this in to a 100% socialist state. For Christs sake they wanted to pass a single payer health system that would have cost $400bil with a state budget of $186bil. It's that kind of thinking that leaves normal people (non liberals) shaking their heads.
The single payer state model will not work. This is fiscally not possible at this time. It's why you need an even larger pool. As I've said, medicare for all (should they want to pay for it) is what is going to happen.
The one thing that I really think you need to stop is the belief that those who do not think like you are "not normal". It's unproductive.
Surely you coach many "liberal" people. Do you think they are all "abnormal"?
The way you react to things is very myopic. Try not labeling people and actually seeing where they are coming from on individual points and you will most likely find yourself surprised at the outcome.
Of course you can not pay 400 billion dollars if you don't have that money, so of course they won't pass that. They did the research and they ran the numbers and no matter how much they "wanted" a single payer system, they realized that individually at the state level, they could not pay for it, so they didn't pass it.
Irresponsible would be pushing that through knowing there was zero way to fund that money.