How do you make California politically insignificant for $500, Alex...
Let it fill up with illegals and then run out of water by the end of 2023. The resulting water war will make WWI losses look in significant. 40 million people in CA, NV, and AZ, will have to pack up and leave. All those multimillion dollar homes, urban ghetto trash, taco breakfast burritos will have to default on their mortgages and pull up stakes.
They will flee to OR, WA, ID, MT WY, and east of the Mississippi. This will open the door for China to start buying up the SW for pennies on the dollar. After CA 53 electoral votes dwindles down to say, 15, it will no longer be the barometer it use to be. Oh sure, the surfing and beach life will stay the same, but in Chinese not English. This event will cause the biggest earthquake in politics never seen before. From the presidential electoral college aspect, you will never see a democrat president again.
I believe when 1/5 of the nation revolts, it will start a 2nd movement where the south will do it again along with most re states - secede.