I believe the elites want California for themselves.
Drive enough people out and buy up the land at a fractional value. Then when it is owned, undo all the policies that are destroying it and make it a paradise.
What a great plot for a movie.
That is because it was the exact story line for Chinatown with Jack Nicholson, Fay Dunaway and John Houston.
Directed by Roman Polanski.
“Mrs Mulray, I G#d damn near lost my nose, and I like my nose, I like breathing through it”