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In reply to the discussion: 'Calexit' supporters can start work to make ballot [View all]haele
(15,220 posts)Divide and conquer is Putin's plan.
There's been a longing for "Cascadia" since the 70's when California started becoming the butt of jokes in the Midwest - we are disparagingly viewed as the La-La land Hollywood types, limousine liberal activists, the land of Fruits, Nuts and Flakes. Even though we have more "Christian" churches per person than most states, we have a strong hard-working rural presence in our population - farming, mining, and forestry are the backbone of most of our major exports, and there's a lot of manufacturing in this state (along with lots of racist red-necks), somehow, Californians just aren't "Real Americans" to the rest of the country.
I was born in California, stationed in California, and currently live here. There's absolutely no way we can currently sustain our 6th greatest economy in the world status if we succeed at this point in time; we have to make a real effort untangle ourselves from the federal funding much of our worker economy depends as a subsidy to help them live in California on before we can even start the process - and that can take years.
This is all propaganda - smoke and mirrors to further destabilize the U.S.. If California just up and left the U.S. in the economic state we are in right now - and they let us without any penalty, such as war or economic sanctions - we would become a third world country before the end of the year we did so.
Haele
