Why the ballot that is lacks props that could have been

Folks with little faith in California voters have won at least a partial victory this year. For many decades, since the great progressive (a tag worn a century ago mostly by moderate Republicans) Gov. Hiram Johnson created the ballot initiative, critics have railed against direct democracy, claiming an uninformed public often makes major mistakes.
After decades of griping about “budgeting by initiative,” those skeptics managed to get a law passed in 2014 allowing legislators to chang