Follow the money. Simply watch where the money goes. It is not going to the middle class. They are getting poorer, while, not coincidentally, the wealthy are getting wealthier.

Why is that? Is it because the wealthy have access to the lawmakers? Is it because war is so profitable? Could it be that the wealthy are able to manipulate hedge funds, and therefore the financial system.

Is it because they are subsidized by the government so as to be assured of not failing? Is it because they profit from farm subsidies? Or Big Oil subsidies, such as wars? Or Big Pharma subsidies?

Those monies aren't going to the middle class. California is dying because Conservatives are killing the middle class everywhere. And then whining about it.

And they justifiably complain about the educational system. It didn't teach them how to figure out even such simple things. They aren't bad, simply poorly educated.