The video of the tent/RV cities hits home, I see that crap every day now.
I also love the area that I have grown up in, but like him, I can barely recognize it. I can't wait to escape it. California has been left of center politically for my entire life, however, we used to have a collective common sense to reign it back in when the nut jobs pulled us too far left. Today, instead of reigning it back in, we decide to go further left.