Salvation through extinction?
By disincorporating, San Bernardino would dissolve a government that ignored the warnings of fiscal crisis and that has been bought off by public-employee unions. Perhaps the county would prove a poor administrator, but it would have to fail impressively to perform worse than the city has already.
And it would be a good object lesson for the state itself.
I may be wrong but I think right now there is only one county seat in California that is not an incorporated city: tiny Markleeville, in the mountains south of Tahoe.
San Bernardino would be joining a very exclusive club.
I tried to get lunch in San Berdo once. I walked up to the crowded counter and the waitress asked, “What’ll you have, hun?” I looked up at the menu board and said, “Uh?”
That was it. She was gone. On to other customers. I didn’t get lunch.