This talk of California seceding from the union is a scary prospect. What happens to the rest of the country? We would be screwed without you. I ask you to stop talking about leaving on your own — that would really be a disaster and abandonment of your fellow countrymen who do stand with you.
Plus, what are you going to do, you need a military.
It is crazy that secession is now a legitimate plan for the future, but I think it is something we do need to think long and hard about and talk about. It is sad, but it does seem like we are reaching the point where we are just too divided to pick up the pieces. I am trying to have hope, and I do have hope that we could win in 2020, but I don’t have hope that it would be any different than Obama’s Presidency — with the lunatic right-wing fringe running mainstream, almost reaching the point of picking up arms. There is no debating or arguing with these people — they live in a world cloaked in conspiracy theories, completely devoid of reality.
I think what would make more sense, would be for the West coast, and the Northeast, to secede and join Canada. It seems like everyone wins. The East and West coasts get to stay a unified country. Canada gets a huge new area, largely with booming economies. We share the same values. The South/Central areas can go on to become as big of a shithole as they’d like, and continue to live in their alternate reality bubble. We could have open borders for quite some time, for anyone who wants to switch sides.
We could even possibly take the capital with us. More than secession, we can just cut the sick part off.