But unless someone puts together a narrative that explains in big easy-to-read letters how A leads to B leads to Epic Fail, the libertarian lunatics will frame this as yet another failure of the concept of central government.

A hundred thousand Randian crazies will continue to hold the state hostage because they're either living in the proverbial parental basement, or too rich to notice. Either way they won't be personally affected.

The problem is the canyon-sized disconnect between egotism and consequences among the other voters on the centre and the right. If no one explains how one leads to the other, they still won't understand.

We were living there as well, and I voted against all of those initiatives and argued against them.  Pissing into the wind.  There had been a significant run up in real estate prices, much of it driven by wealthy immigrants, but also affected by the increase in oil prices post the Saudi Oil Embargo earlier in the decade. (At the time I concluded that, if oil was going to cost three times as much, then the property holders figured that, BY GOD, their property was going to be worth three times as much.)

The most dramatic impact was on local government as Prop 13 capped tax rates at 1%--the ultimate anti-Georgist measure.  Then, IIRCC, SCOTUS rulings about equality of educational funding between rich and poor districts led to most funding for school districts being shifted to the state.  The two thirds majority requirement for tax increases has led to the Cave Men blocking any tax increases except the most regressive, such as sales tax, which are also the most pro-cyclical, dropping rapidly during recessions.  The Gann initiative required that, during boom times, money could not be spent on capital improvements, as spending was limited to a formula based on population growth, with adjustments for shifts of responsibility among governmental agencies.  Doing anything other than returning money to taxpayers required legislative action, which, again, was blocked by the Cave Men.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."