Sure! And it is federalism that keeps it that way. How about this scenario:

The Republicans win a super majority congress in November and, enraged by the last two years of Democratic insults and misrule, ram one socially conservative bill after another through congress and past Biden’s veto pen. You watch in shock and outrage as they hunt for illegal aliens to expel in California, then outlaw mask mandates, vaccine requirements, CRT in schools, and racial quotas of any sort in any institution that receives federal funds. Then they really start to use their imaginations and go to town seeking the revenge they believe they so richly deserve.

Betcha wouldn’t like that, huh? Without federalism, the whole country would have to accept the whims of untouchable politicians elected far from home. California can resist those kinds of conservative laws because the 10th amendment says that states make their own laws, except for the very specific situations where federal law is supreme like in interstate trade and foreign policy.

You seem to think people in other states with views opposite to your own deserve to have to accept whatever crap you shove in their mouths, swallow and say they like it. But they don’t, and Florida and Texas standing up for themselves is a welcome development, just like when Los Angeles refused to cooperate with federal illegal alien hunts during the Trump administration.

If they only law that “counts” is coming from Washington and people find the laws intolerable, then the only thing left to do is fight. The last time that happened we went at it hammer and tongs and people were pretty sorry about that afterwards. Federalism = Peace.