When I moved here, I imagined some kind of consensus that we were all players on the same “good team.” After all, each of us wakes up each morning to see the most beautiful mountains and somehow-­still-­blue water as we listen to the public radio report on the state’s governor signing one bill after another that will make our state a better place: nonprescription HIV medicine; healthcare for gig economy workers; a sanctuary city for immigrants. I was returning to a place where a lot of us go to sleep at night thinking about how we can wake up and make the California dream available for all.