I mean, the rate at which people are dying and becoming disabled due to covid can't be sustainable, can it? This country was running on fumes to begin with. Surely a country with an infamously terrible healthcare system, an economy that runs everything with as little margin for error as possible, and a government that has lost its ability to respond to any major disaster that can't be shot at cannot withstand this kind of catastrophe? What do you think things are going to look like five years from now?
Hahahaha maybe you'll get a SocDem in SF or LA area, but CA is far from being welcoming to a succ. Maaaaybe if the housing market collapses worse than it did in 2008 you could see this kind of change, but real estate, tech, and agribusiness run this state and is invested in a neoliberal framework. CA just seems ahead of the curve because they are willing to do techno-cratic bandaid solutions like Cap and Trade, Single use plastic bag bans, etc, but the only structural changes the state makes are concessions to the right.
You're probably right, but the electoral power is there, and it becomes a question of how capital is willing to concede as the going gets rough (and yeah there's a solid chance the answer is just CAHSR and medium density development in LA, which is far from enough)