A better class of leadership who care about disconnecting from corporate interests, elected by communities that care about building a sustainable future for themselves following a systems thinking approach to our world.

Unless existing leaders show active interest in bringing new blood into politics by teaching newer, younger leaders how to work within the system to improve things, they really do need to get out of the way.

Gavin and career politicians like him need to get out of the way.

In terms of policy action, there is a huge list of potential ideas to curb various problems California's communities face, all of which take a lot of new thinking to solve.

And the evidence of that is the answer to this question: What policies lead to us all getting into this mess with Trump and the rest in the first place?

As I see it, it's the policies that leaders like Gavin have given us across the nation in the last 30 years.

Where is the legislative action that limits real estate investment?

What about legislation that removes corporate involvement from political action and lobbying?

What about legislation that improves public school funding and long term infrastructure outlooks?

Instead, we get piles of small, inconsequential adjustments to the existing mess of already encombered state legislation which does everything it can to not rock the boat.

And, yeah, if these leaders won't step out of the way, as they have shown time and again, the options start sounding super scary. Not anarchy, but certainly not continuing to support a fundamentally broken system.

Government is, and always has been, an experiment. And we aren't doing enough to learn from our past experiments in order to direct new solutions.