I say "20 years" as a placeholder for "an indeterminate time in the future", but your point is taken. Washington was much further along in its transformation than Texas, but I was surprised at how quickly it moved into California 2.0. And we had the foresight to structure our state Constitution to prevent cities and counties from acting autonomously in some circumstances (eg. taxation) to prevent "thin edge of the wedge" strategies to change the state.

The compounding effect of Amazon hiring tens of thousands of Bay Area engineers per year is hard to think about. And your governor is foolishly courting these people under some "magic dirt" delusion: he has no idea the hell he's unleashing on his people