Posted on 06/29/2017 8:17:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Dear America,
I suppose I should wish you happy birthday. But I’m just not feeling it.
You and I, the United States and California, used to be close – “indivisible” was your word and “inseparable” was mine. Sure, we had differences – I’ve always been a little out there – but California was proudly part of America, and you tolerated our excesses.
Everyone is entitled to a mid-life crisis. But you are having an especially nasty meltdown. You’ve turned against everything you used to love: immigrants, trade, international alliances, voting rights, women’s rights, science, national parks, and treating people with respect.
But today, I look at you and feel like I’m an entirely different place, with different values, even different realities. Who is responsible for our problems?
It’s really not me. It’s you. While I’m the almond-producing state, you’re the one that has gone nuts.
These days, you’re constantly freaking out. And the government you installed in Washington – a government my voters opposed by historic margins – is trying to take away people’s health care, make it harder to vote, roll back environmental regulations, restart the failed drug war, and pick fights with our friends, like Mexico, Canada, Germany, Sweden, and South Korea.
Going forward, our relationship can’t be the same.
Now, I’m not going to march out the door and become my own country, like the #Calexit movement proposed. You are still my country, and I’m not surrendering you.
My people are just as American as yours. On July 4, I’ll still host barbecues and parades for tens of millions of your citizens. Back east of the Sierra, I hope your fireworks are bigger than ever, and that your people will stand extra close.
Maybe all the explosions will wake you the hell up.
Independently yours,
California
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
POS
“You’ve turned against everything you used to love: immigrants, trade, international alliances, voting rights, women’s rights, science, national parks, and treating people with respect.”
Joe, you are a damn liar. Your article loses all credibility with the above quote. You are either a liar or a moron. I guess you could be both.
California - FO
If wishes were horses then beggars and calexit pukes would ride
As it should be. I’m a big 10th amendment fan and put states first over the feds in all but a few areas (i.e. military). I’ll gladly join in moving about 90% of what the feds do and regulate back to state control (along with 90% decrease in federal taxes).
I realize many people in both my state and California will need to move but in the end we’ll all be much happier with more local control of our lives (unless you run out of other people’s money and can’t implement all your dreams)
And Kate Steinle is still unavailable for comment...
Speak for yourself, moonbat. There are still millions of Californians who are proud to be a part of the USA.
“Immigrants”
Legal or illegal?
Remember Ellis Island?
There are liars and then there are pathological liars...
Math is hard.
OK, Kalifornia - the rest of us will remember that when your miserable Marxist atheist state gets knocked on its ass by a massive seismic event. We’ll tell you to fend for yourselves. We’re done giving you commie clowns our assistance. When the good Earth rocks, rolls, heaves, and razes your cities to the ground ... When the Pacific Ocean swallows half your population, don’t bother requesting our help - we’ll happily ignore you.
South Carolina said something similar about 150 years ago.
Everyone is entitled to a mid-life crisis. But you are having an especially nasty meltdown. You’ve turned against everything you used to love: immigrants, trade, international alliances, voting rights, women’s rights, science, national parks, and treating people with respect
Americans still respect voting rights, but not for non citizens.
Americans still welcome immigrants, but not those that sneak into our country, don’t bother to learn our language, commit crimes and expect welfare for just being here.
Americans respect woman’s rights but we don’t believe killing babies is a person’s “right”, it is murder. Deal with it.
Americans understand science then those that believe in made man climate change. We know and understand earth’s climate changes, it has in the past and it will again in the future. Nothing man can do will have much of an impact.
American’s enjoy National Parks but do not believe the government should just arbitrarily declare lands parks just for political reasons.
American’s respect other people much better those on the left who are the most intolerant people in this nation.
If it was possible to divide California down the middle, I would say go way and become your own country, good riddance.
Sure thing toad brain. Don’t ask for ANY federal money for anything
Precisely
Might have worked out if shots hadn’t been fired
FUCA and Joe Mathews.
Someone should point out to this asshat that had not the US purchased Alaska from the Ruskies and thereby cut them off from the west coast, his state would be reporting to Putin today. I bet they would not have anywhere near the “flexibility” to do what they want with Vlad, or his predecessors in the Kremlin.
After an extended period of navel gazing, the author has reached the amazing conclusion that he’d be a lot happier if everyone in the country just did what he told them to do.
I support The State of Jefferson!!!
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