I am not in California but a forever renter. I am pointing out that the fact that there are parties that completely control specific states means both the electoral college can mean votes don't matter, and that party monopolies of state politics just mean that people of opposite beliefs (to the extent that Democrats and Republicans have different beliefs, other than orange spray-tan good/bad) mean that progressives in South Dakota run as Republicans (there they still haven't got office yet) or conservatives in urban areas of New York or California run as Democrats. It is only in swing states where there is still some firm differences between candidates of different parties.