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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCALIFORNIA V. TRUMP: THE FIGHT BEGINS FOR HEALTH CARE, IMMIGRATION AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICA
Gavin Newsome on how & why California is ready to fight back
Updated | It began with a tweet, as so much does these days. The first shot in the coming war was fired in a 140-character burst by Shervin Pishevar, a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. If Trump wins I am announcing and funding a legitimate campaign for California to become its own nation, said the first in a volley of tweets by the Iranian-American technology investor. As 6th largest economy in world, he said three tweets later, economic engine of nation, provider of a large % of federal budget, California carries a lot of weight.This call to arms was retweeted thousands of times in those bewildering first hours of the Age of Trump. By the next morning, the movement for California to secede from the United States had made national headlines, with Pishevar anointed the movements leader. It even had a name, Calexit, an echo of the Brexit movement, which will eventually cleave Great Britain from the European Union. The nativist tone of Brexit foreshadowed the xenophobia of Donald Trump. Calexit is a kind of nativism too, except its fundamentally sunny in dispositiona Brexit for American liberals much more closely aligned with Western Europe than West Virginia.
http://www.newsweek.com/2017/02/03/california-can-defeat-trump-heres-how-542758.html
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)as being legit.
Alekzander
(479 posts)winetourdriver01
(1,154 posts)We need to stick together, both locally and nationally, to fight this. This is a war of fascism again liberalism, and the fascists have already won the first battle with the election of Twitler. And yes, Russia wants the USA to break apart, it would be sweet revenge for the break up of the USSR.
Alekzander
(479 posts)winetourdriver01
(1,154 posts)The more I've thought about the situation, the clearer it becomes: This is a war (WWIII) if you like, of fascism against liberalism. We are losing. No one knows how it will all end, we need to fight like our lives depend on it.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)could be an opportunity closer to home.