… no sector anywhere has changed less than the state. California provides perhaps the starkest example. It contains the world’s most advanced industries, but it has one of the most useless governments on Earth, a mess of thousands of different-sized, overlapping and competing cities, districts and counties. The left has indulged the teachers’ unions, the right has built prisons with abandon. Politics is hopelessly partisan.
John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of The Economist, sees California at the center of the upcoming struggle against Leviathon in 2011.
