This is why it is important to make politics miserable for liberals (in conservative areas of the country). Discourage them by talking about conservative politics.
A big reason I left California 20 years ago was politics. It’s not just the wacky ideas, its the taxes that spawn from wacky ideas. Spending almost $1 Billion to save Redwood Trees on private property from a logging business that has been cultivating the trees for 100 years is ridiculous. But, in the same year raising taxes to fund an additional $1 billion for California public schools makes sane people crazy.
California used to have one of the best publik skrewel systems in the country. In fact, it was so good that private schools were merely places where marginal kids were sent. I suppose the decline began at roughly the same time California started to turn blue.