Sick and tired of this sentiment. It is impossible for many factors, first and foremost the security of our country. If it takes a civil war to reign in a renegade state so be it but giving a star away is absurd.
You’re right. It’s silly and selfish and would never ever work.
And yet because California is so important for many reasons, others have a free ride on it. It’s like we’re being dared to take it away from them.
That won’t happen forcibly as far as mere lefties are concerned, but the Feds do have room to stand on the Constitution here. California doesn’t have to WANT to be guarded from invaders for the Federal government to have the right to do that anyhow.
If I had to trade resources? I’d gladly drop the war on drugs to pay for a war on invaders. If all states want to join Colorado a mile high, let them. But let it all be citizens or authorized guests who are doing it. Rehab (and spiritual forfending) would quickly get very, very serious.
Oh, we might even have some sort of circumscribed amnesty, where circumscribed is the key. You don’t step up for it, or you weren’t on very good behavior, you are placed on the figurative trebuchet out of here.