New York and California are the two leading blue states. They have enormous cultural heft and wealth. And yet they're governed in ways a banana republic would despair of.
The California legislature is in the middle of a civil war over a single payer socialized medicine bill that didn't pass because there isn't enough money in California to pay for its $400 billion price tag. Instead of figuring out a sane health care plan, the nurses' union, whose disproportionate political power seems in proportion to its fanatical madness, decided to launch a civil war among the Democrats.
Meanwhile over in New York, Governor Cuomo and Mayor De Blasio are in a race to the very bottom of political trolling. After the governor demanded that New York City help pay for the subway (which magically began falling apart in recent years), the mayor proposed an unworkable tax on the "wealthy" to pay for it. Said tax having to be passed by the state legislature.
While there's no money for the system, Bill de Blasio's grand plan was to find yet another way to embarass Cuomo while engaging in class warfare trolling.
California and New York have entrenched Democrat power systems. And yet the Democrats are tearing each other apart while demonstrating that they can't actually govern.