Voter-approved initiatives don’t last long enough for the ink to dry before the Legislature, with the governor’s approval, overwrites them. Then they set out to make the next round of plebiscite democracy that much more difficult to achieve.
The party with a super-majority in public offices is literally in debt to a guy who commands them to hoard their power among a few rather than share it with the many. Keeping the open access to public office that has already been won becomes the best we can hope for, and a full-time job.