Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it repeatedly. Maybe you don't owe California better, but you owe this community better if you're posting to it.
The rest of the U.S., munching on almonds and avocados, doesn't see the interconnectedness of it all. There's only one earth. California isn't on Mars.
There's not really anyone who isn't affected, or anyplace to go to escape.