Posted on 08/03/2017 2:22:39 AM PDT by calvincaspian
California could secede from the United States. Signatures are being hurriedly gathered for a 2018 ballot initiative that would begin the process of independence for the Golden State.
Awesome. Break a leg. I wholeheartedly endorse #Calexit and heres why you should too.
About a third of the entire welfare population of the United States lives in California. Lets make that the Independent Country of Californias problem, not ours.
An estimated 2,350,000 illegal immigrants (about the population of Connecticut) reside there too. In the new California they can all be legalized and wont have to dwell in the shadows.
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@cmj328 This is why the Union had to go on the offensive even if Lincoln had ignored Sumter being swiss-cheesed. It wouldn’t have been a year before we were fighting over the territories out west. And they were already trying to make deals with foreign nations, notably England.
Californication would be signing on the dotted line with all kinds of leftist-tyrant nations faster than you could say “gulag” because unlike the South they have an insane debt problem. Also they would not even be able to feed themselves. So we’d likely have either a protectorate of a hostile foreign nation or a failed state that was ripe for infiltration/takeover of a hostile foreign nation. Not a good situation either way.
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