The Republic of California?
Read Soren K's artice about the impending EU collapse. Two things resonated with me in his essay:1- :What is happening now is a back-lash to 30 years of Globalization attempts. It is a backlash to national leaders and corporations benefiting while their citizens do not. It is what happens when you make borders porous for money and corporation movement, but western labor forces and their capital are walled in their own countries.2- Centralizers aren't going down without a fight. Whether you are a gun toting redneck or an academic IMF official: emotional intelligence is not cognitive. And all people are at risk of being married to their ideas. So right now it is the liberal globalists who are bitterly clinging to their "guns and god". As an elite class with no skin in thegame, they are MORE likely to persist in their ideas given no consequences to them.Full article hereNow consider the Left's foot-stomping response to Trump's victory: riots, official flouting of federal law, and panic. Never, in my life, have I seen this kind of response. The Left was visibly irritated when Bush defeated Gore and was certain that demographics were destiny for total control for the Democratic party nationally. Nobody saw Trump's victory coming and now everybody is talking about "Two Americas". There are more than two Americas. Back in 1981, Joel Garreau published a book called "The Nine Nations of North America" and updated his thoughts in a New York Times article 2 years ago. In the book, the "nations" he described almost exclusively split for Clinton and Trump based on cultural and political differences. Of special note should be the nations Garreau calls "Ecotopia" and "MexAmerica". The majority of the population in these "nations" lives in California.
from the Nine Nations of North America- 2014
California is a progressive paradise. It is a countercultural state to say...the Midwest or Prarie States. Over the past thirty years, more conservative, traditional California counties have flipped in Presidential elections to join with San Francisco (consider that John Wayne's Orange County voted for Clinton in 2016). California restored Democrats to a supermajority in the Legislature, banned plastic bags, and legalized recreational marijuana in this past election.California's response to the Trump election is beyond foot-stomping though. The San Francisco County Board of Supervisors just passed a resolution which says they intend to remain a sanctuary city, intend to outlaw conversion therapy for homosexuals, affirm a government reaction to climate change, and intends to build more public transit whether it gets federal; matching funds or not. More shocking is Silicon Valley's response; it wants California to secede from the United States.This isn't a crazy idea, Californians have been talking about this for two decades now. Since Trump won, the idea of a ballot proposition is being floated by the Silicon Valley enterprenuers who wants to secede. They have the means and money to get it on the 2018 or 2020 ballot and frankly, watch out. Crazier things have happened.The controllers would have a tough time pushing back against the California controllers. California has a robust and diverse economy, holds land that the federal government needs for national defense, and is a net contributor to the federal budget. #CalExit could be the first shot fired in the Second American Civil War
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