Good article.
Statistical evidence of the effects of progressivism:

The policies are
-High tax rates
-Heavy regulation
-High welfare benefits
-Environmental extremism
-High minimum wage
-Outlawed energy drilling

The consequences are
-No worker’s paradise, but a worker’s nightmare
-Large gap between rich and poor
-Lower growth
-Benefit the rich and politically well-connected at the expense of everyone else
(-and therefore more unemployment and poverty. )

Conclusion
'The workers' are better off with capitalist rather than progressive politics.

I live in California and like all the other blue states we are in serious financial trouble. We suffer from the typical lib-prog fantasy that reality can be legislated and determined by political edict. Like King Canute commanding the waves to stop this is part of the mantra of political power. The CalExit people want to secede from the US and form an independent country. They have even set up a faux embassy in Moscow! Economic laws are as fundamental and real as the law of gravity and if you step off the roof of a tall building you will certainly fall to your death even if you don't believe the law applies to you. That is California's fate.

The problem the wealthy are having in the blue states is a lack of domestic labor. Housing cost is so high in these areas that unless you can provide housing on site for the housekeeper, gardener, nanny, chauffeur, etc., they can't afford to live close enough to provide the needed services. I suspect this situation is what will drive the robotics market, since these well off are able to afford the high first user price that will come with sophisticated robot labor.

I'm surprised that the robot makers are struggling to enter the market at the low end, with robot vacuum cleaners and the like that sell for a few hundred dollars. I would have spent more research and time to create a much more capable home robot, or system of robots priced at thousands of dollars, and targeted the rich, who are always wanting to be ahead of the trend.

By the same token, it's mystified me why the autonomous cars are all looking like a Toyota Camry, rather than a Rolls Royce. These are expensive machines, so why not make these real luxury cars that appeal to those who can actually afford them? The same auto makers that keep selling the SUVs because that's where the profit is should think about this. The profit is in the expensive models, and even if the number of sales is low to start, being the first to have what in essence is a robot chauffeur will be viewed as a premiere feature. Do that first, then it will be much easier to spread the technology to the masses.

Unfortunately when people leave these states they continue to vote for liberal progressive policies turning a successful Red state into a blue one.

The problem is that the people that leave these states are like a cancer when they move to Red states, eventually turning them blue, raising taxes etc. and spreading the misery. I cant tell you how many times I have heard Yankee refugees who come down south tell me..."Wow, the taxes are so low here...just think what we could have if we raised them just a little". I usually tell them...."If all that stuff is so great...go the hell back home where you already have all those wonderful services!"

This article paralegals LBJ's War on Poverty which has cost us 19 trillion dollars and is a dismal failure. Will government officials EVER realize that they are NOT producers and ARE the problem, not the solution.

And what is more depressing is that they finally leave those States, but still try to drag their failed policies with them!

The saying that "people often vote with their feet" is exceedingly apropos within this context.

Blanco

I always figured the more attractive the place as a place to visit, the crazier the politics. Nowhere is this truer than in California--though I am shocked to hear of people packing up and coming back to The Mainland because Hawaii is too socialistic for them.

Let's be clear, furthermore, on who "the rich" are in those States. They are the best-connected. Which means they really are the thieves leftists always say rich people are.

Hi Dino, this movement of jobs and people from highly taxed and regulated states is very interesting. The very wealthy in those states likely applaud the exodus. They don't need to work , their money works for them .These are the advanced thinkers who feel eugenics is an appropriate policy.

All one need do is to look at the overlays of the recent national election and the crime map for the country and you will see that Blue State failure is systemic.

The voters that keep putting in the Dem pols that keep giving things away and weakening the Constitution have only themselves to blame for this well documented, self inflicted disaster these states are all facing to varying degrees.

As the saying goes "Stupid is as stupid does...." For what its worth!

Nothing that anyone with half a brain can plainly see. Unfortunately there are a lot of quarter-brains out there.

So what else is new?