Great read indeed and what,s shameful is that Ca. is rich in natural resources and yet the populace to it,s detriment allows those in power to place a strangle hold on any exploitation of those resources.
They can only go back to the money trough so many time and at some point the state will collapse and when it does what will they do then ?

'None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.'
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe