Oregon has a long seen itself as 'on the edge' of cultural change.    The nation needs such states to act as testing grounds.

The facts are that people is general resist change.   Oregon liberalism invites the explorer of Wester migration, but a new path means a greater chance of failure.   High risk is fine only if you accept the possibility of failure.   Political systems and bureaucracies are designed to be perpetual and often focused on self preservation.

All that is fine IF the state has majority approval- and it doesn't require it.   A majority of cast votes is NOT a majority of all citizens.  Add in the dominance of one party and you get institutional group think.  We need a viable opposition to Democratic policy.    That's the responsibility of non-Democrats, don't expect them to weaken their own dominance.   

I have little faith in the Republican leadership to use rational process over ideological clap trap.  Independents hold some potential, but aren't organized.