California Democrats have been excessively lazy in attending to California's finances and the state of our democracy. What they should have been doing all these years is building a campaign for basic reforms such as 50% vote being sufficient to raise taxes, splitting the Prop 13 tax rolls so that business pays its fair share, and perhaps most important creating a system for elections where opponents are more closely matched and the outcome of elections can no longer be so easily predicted, because when most of the outcomes are predictable, there is no real democracy and no real elections. Hopefully Prop 11 will take care of electoral reform, but without the people pushing for all they're worth, there will be no reform.