What is the reason, then, that California cannot be considered a first world state, and instead a failed state? And are there other states that used to have this designation, but have lost it in your view? Just curious.

Exploding deficits, tent cities, shit covered sidewalks, blackouts, palpable corruption, to name a few. No, I don’t think it’s limited to California, that state just kind of serves as a time machine for the rest of the country.

Ah, okay. I think we have different ideas of what constitutes a failed state.

No, it doesn't.

Texas has the most number of outages in the last 20 years of all states, where an outage is defined by the DOE has a power failure affecting 50,000 people or more.

> https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/report-texas-has-the-m...

It's amazing how much people will let their biases color their worldview.

Texas has the most "ongoing issues" with power of any state.

You're being delusional. Maybe reconsider