California really was the Golden State, it had everything. Because of that, it’s been targeted and attacked since the sixties at least, and they’re finally getting to critical mass. Letting it go would be foolish, but the attitudes of the majority populace and the state laws have got to change in a major way. That’s sadly not at all likely to happen.
California will boom under a Trump administration. It would boom a whole lot more if they simply got out of their own way.