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Human nature. Especially when you base your self-worth on what you believe, and not whether said beliefs or actions do measurable good. Doubly so when you base your evaluations of others based on whether they profess your beliefs. Triply so when you hit the "laws for thee, not for me"...

Statism, but not always leftism. Depends on where you put religion in your political axes. Though, arguably, we are seeing left-wing political beliefs become a religious shibboleth to those who hold them, vote for them, but do not follow them in their private lives. Or unconscious moral...

No, standard view of using the government to make people more moral and better dating back to at least Prohibition.

No. The Curley effect requires consciousness of the effects of your actions. Unless CA Democrats are smarter and better liars than they appear to be on TV, they genuinely believe what they are doing makes things better, even though they move heaven and hell in their private lives to avoid what...

Apathy. Fraud. Corruption. People voting with their feet and leaving.

No, absolutely not. California's problems are entirely due to the politically active left wing being isolated from the consequences of their policies by power, money and wanton Soviet-style nomenklatura levels of hypocrisy. What CA needs is the powerful to feel the pain, and be precluded from...