I already feel better by just signing up and pledging to support them. I’m hoping this comes to be. I know this may never happen, but just the thought of standing in the Republic of California and laughing at the 49 states of America gives me quite a rush.
A year ago, I would have been against this movement, saying that keeping the Union together was as important now as in Lincoln’s time. But now, I’m having second thoughts. And the worldwide trend seems to be isolation and separation, not togetherness.
As an ex-Californian, I can’t oppose it.
Wonder what the political climate will be like in another 20 years.
No, thank you. I rather like being a US citizen, regardless of the name of the person who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
No, thank you.
If NM swaps with AZ, can we come too? We’ll just swap the people, not the land, then we get the Grand Canyon. (Don’t let on about the leaky flat roofs on all the adobe houses.)
Even better, if CO also swaps with UT, the blue states in the West can just secede as a block, leaving a contiguous Trumpdom of Deploria in the center. Deploria gets the Rockies, but we get all the canyon country and the Sierra Nevada.
You get NOTHING from Nevada. Do not be fooled by this election. We Do Not Stand With You.
Oregon and Washington are in.
California doesn’t need Nevada or any other state, it’s one of the least federally dependent states in the US (the least dependent are Kansas, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware. (Cite: https://wallethub(dot)com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/
According to Wiki, “The economy of California is large enough to be comparable to that of the largest of countries. As of 2016, the gross state product (GSP) is about $2.514 trillion, the largest in the United States. California is responsible for 13.9 percent of the United States’ approximate $18.1 trillion gross domestic product (GDP). California’s GSP is larger than the GDP of all but 5 countries in dollar terms (the United States, China, Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom), larger than Brazil, France, Russia, Italy, India, Canada, Australia, Spain and Turkey. In Purchasing Power Parity, it is larger than all but 10 countries (the United States, China, India, Japan, Germany, Russia, Brazil, France, the United Kingdom, and Indonesia), larger than Italy, Mexico, Spain, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Canada and Turkey.”
Selfish, shortsighted thinking. What defense force will California have? What border patrol? What State Department?
I don’t want a customs check and passport stamp just to drive to Reno or up to Crater Lake.
It will pass. Just people venting over feeling ignored and disenfranchised.
You are right, there are sunny days ahead.
I’m trying to imagine the wall Trump will build between California and the rest of the USA.
My uncle and cousins recently moved to Idaho – would they be deported back to CA?
Secession is impractical for myriad reasons, lack of military being one of them. But I’d love to see this come to a vote as a Brexit-esque non-binding referendum, just to make a statement to the rest of the backwards, racist, sexist, red-state run USA.
It’s true that California would need to be protected against the rest of the USA, a state that is now clearly seen as an insane sorcerer’s apprentice.
I was born and raised in Maryland to a father from a loooong line of Californians. I’ll happy go with CA, but is there any way we could bring along Maryland too?
Nah Buddha, We don’t work that way in Idaho. A lot of us would, however, sit back and laugh uproariously as California plummeted from one of the largest GDPs in the world to utter poverty and failed nation-state status almost overnight if they did successfully secede from the union.
As non Californian would love to see it, but it won’t happen. Just venting.
As a Trump hater and essentially reliable Democrat, all I have to say is don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
You’ll kiss off the 55 delegates that Hillary got? That would make the score even more lopsided:
290: Trump
173: Clinton