YES! High-speed rail is a basic human right! Power to the people!
Good—a “country” for the illegals, socialists, anarchists, racists, welfare leeches, and rioters. We’ll see how long that lasts. I’ll donate money to build a wall to keep them in their new country.
Something similar may have happened with San Francisco, which separated from San Mateo county, and confined at the end of its peninsula, lost place to growing Los Angeles in the south. You don't want to cut yourself off from further development and resources because you never know what could happen in the future.
California may seem like it's wealthy, self-sufficient, dynamic and powerful now, but 20 years after independence it may start to look like a rundown rump state. San Francisco is already sort of unsustainable and kept going by people who make their money elsewhere, isn't it?
If California becomes independent, America will develop another Hollywood or Silicon Valley elsewhere, and Asians who invest in North America's west coast because it looks stable and dynamic might decide to take their money some other place.
If independence does come, though, I wouldn't assume that inland areas of California would stick with the US. There would be a lot of conflict, a lot of movement of peoples, and some violence -- all of that forced on people who probably don't want to have to make a choice about which way to go.
Only if we can build a wall to keep them out.
I’m sure they can go over to North Korea and carve out a little slice of heaven.
She and her ilk are NOT anti-war. They're anti-US, pro-communist. They're never met a bloody leftist uprising or revolution that they didn't embrace and support. They worship mass murderers like Mao tse Tung.
Well .. in the immortal words of Curly Bill .. BYE! Don’t let that soon to be erected to the east border wall kick ya from behind!
WE CAN DO THIS
Uh, no you can’t.
Being a "VOTER" in kalifornia doesn't even necessarily mean you are a citizen.
Now lots of people on this thread will be bashing Californians and lumping us all in like we all support this nonsense.
Those who do are forgetting that there’s millions of fine conservatives here who are held hostage by one party state rule... And we hate it.
On day one, shut off the water.
Day two, seal the border.
There won’t be a day three.
Cindy Sheehan? Krap! Why not get Michael Moore or Nancy pelousy or Mad mAxine Waters and really screw up californication!,??
Jerry Brown and his self-serving, corrupt, wacko cohorts are insane, in my opinion.
This whole notion is just a bunch of people moving their mouths and words coming out. The proposal is not going anywhere.
Be careful what you ask for.
It wouldn’t be just California; it would also be Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii. This would cut off the U.S. from the Pacific Ocean and I’m not sure we can allow that.
Also, for California to go would require a change to the U.S. Constitution and that kind of a change would open the way for probably many other states to leave as well, possibly along Red State/Blue State boundaries.
forget that. 7 state solution. Starting with the Republic of Southern California (which does not include LA)
The DNC really wants to give up all those Congressional seats, EC votes, pork, and gravy.
Good luck!