How to Ruin a State...

Let's say you have this state.  

A big and very lush state, featuring 800 miles of ocean shoreline, and abundant natural resources, and beautiful, majestic mountains, and cold, clear, ice-blue lakes, and a wonderful, temperate, quasi-Mediterranean climate.  

And let's go on to say this hypothetical state was situated geographically and economically and historically and situationally so that it was the epicenter of technology and medicine and aerospace and energy and entertainment.    

And let's also say this state is center-right politically, well managed, with money in the bank.  "The Shining City on the Hill," as Ronnie Reagan once called it.  

So, if you were of the mind to do so, as it appears so many on the Left are these days, how would you go about destroying this state?  How would you set about ruining it?  Assuming you wanted to, that is.  Due to some nefarious intent, you decided you wanted to cripple, bankrupt and erase this, the most beautiful and prosperous state in the nation.  How would you go about it?   

In my estimation, it would be quite simple:

First, you'd make it so lush, so beautiful, so economically-powerful, so attractive, so wealthy, so full of promise, with warm, temperate breezes that people from all over the country wanted to move there.  You'd make it an "attractive nuisance," in other words.  

Second, and for the same reasons, millions and millions of illegal aliens would break in and set up shop, using fraudulent I.D.s, becoming felons in the process, and taking jobs other legal citizens and residents might want and truly  deserve. 

Third, all the folks who beat feet and left Chicago and Baltimore and Philly and Newark and New York City would bring all the ridiculous left-wing nonsense with them that they should have left behind.    

Fourth, as their numbers grew, they eventually would subsume the legal citizens via their burgeoning majority and start electing liberals and Progressives and Marxists and communists and socialists and eco-warriors and race hustlers to city councils and school boards and sanitation departments.  And then develop all sorts of new and diabolical ways of counting votes (that's how Orange County, CA turned Blue!).

Fifth, soon, with a stranglehold on the political power in the state, they'd start passing dumbass laws that not only wasted money, and thus necessitated tax increases, they'd also pass laws that infringed on the beliefs and the rights and privileges of the new political minorities within their borders.  All done for the express purpose of increasing and strengthening their political power.  

Sixth, the honest, honorable, hard-working taxpayers who'd been thrashed to pay for all that largesse starts bolting.  Destination: Parts Unknown.  Boxes packed.  U-Haul doors slamming shut and heading on down the I-10 for Parts Unknown, with almost any other "parts" being better.  And taking their jobs and their tax money and their quest for freedom and fairness with them.  

Hello Utah and Nevada and Arizona and Idaho and Florida and Wyoming and Oklahoma and Georgia and Tennessessesseeeeee, and, and, and...  

And seventh, soon there's nobody and nothing left but billionaires, skid row homeless, the dirt poor, Hollywood stars and Silicon Valley techies, as well as well as piles and piles and piles of human poop in the Streets of San Francisco and Lost Angeles. 

And the highest income taxes in America.  And the highest gas taxes in America.  And the highest sales taxes in America.  And the largest number of illegal aliens in America.  And the highest level of poverty in America.  And the fastest percentage of out-migration in America.         

Oh yeah, and sign twirlers and Starbucks baristas...