In retrospect, 2023 was the year it became obvious we would willingly cede national leadership.
In retrospect, 2023 was also the year it became obvious that California would willingly cede national leadership to Texas. California signaled its surrender by failing to respond to a startling drop in population.
In a saner time, such a rapid reversal of population in a state synonymous with arrival — “California Here I Come” — would have been a crisis. State and local governments would have launched programs to encourage birth and attract new Californians. Budget surpluses could have been devoted to tax bonuses for starting families, loan forgiveness for California university graduates who settled in the state, and much-more-affordable housing.
So, instead of seizing on population decline as a reason to remake the state, Californians used it as an excuse to avoid doing hard things.
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