No Sympathy for Shuttered California Oyster Farm

This is a tough story.  A business will be arbitrarily closed and people will lose their jobs.  It's tough, but I have no sympathy.  Californians vote as uniformly lock-step as you're gonna get in a truly free society for ever bigger and more intrusive government. And Californians, in particular, are known for the dictatorial, 'I know better than you' form of liberalism.  These are not midwestern Democrats.  And big intrusive government does what it does.  Scorpion. Frog.  All that jazz.

Californians - not uniquely but especially visibly -  have contributed their out-sized electoral vote cache to ever larger and ever more power-ravenous federal government.  Why should anyone expect them not to experience its depredations?  I feel no sympathy.  In fact I chafe at the very idea of unthinking shock emanating from the Golden State at anything the federal government does.  Own it.