Of course you think your assessment is right on. Of course you think "You're just another 'cafeteria Catholic' who picks and chooses what you want to push your narrow orthodox agenda on everyone else." 

How did sharing those thoughts advance the discussion?

http://uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/GENERAL/pe2016.png

What we find is that the winning candidate had 61,576,729 and the losing 62,978,493, a difference of 1,401,764 votes, of course plus minus some numbers as they fuzz with them.

The losing candidate carried California by 3,219,680.

So, what we find is that our republican system prevented California by itself from controlling the outcome of the election.