The more important question is not can we save California, but should we. California was created as a huge state because very few people live there. Now it is the most populace state. To big to fail is too big to exist. California should be allowed to fail, then be broken up into two or possibly three states. Isolate the coastal nuthouse and free the interior of the state. There are more conservatives in California than Oklahoma, but their voice will never the heard so long as they are tied to the coastal albatross of LA and SF.
I think the proper response is not just no but HELL NO!
I vote for 3 states, an entirely conservative one that splits off just east of Sacramento, all the way up to the Oregon border and down to just south of Bakersfield and then goes west to Arizona border, and includes all of the Northeastern counties. Another line that runs over to the coast from Bakersfeild and then the third would be the whole southern part below Bakersfield. That would make two liberal states and one very conservative state.
After the two liberal states totally collapse and the conservative one thrives, maybe they would learn something from it, then again, maybe not. Oh, yes, the northeastern counties would have total control over the water of the norhtern sierras.