Maybe you've heard the phrase,"As goes Ohio, so goes the nation", there's also a similar one for Maine but those refer only to elections.  America has seen some very interesting copycatting of California over the past 50 years and that's the topic of this podcast.  It's not just the nation copying liberal California, no. First we have to look at all the copying of formerly conservative California to understand why there is potential for a promising transformation (or reformation) of the conservative rule that was tried and failed in California and is currently failing in the national government.