I VOTE YES ON CALEXIT!

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(11-10-2016, 06:54 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Breaking from Newsmax.com
#Calexit: Trump's Victory Renews Push for California to Leave US
A new push for California to exit the United States has arisen in the wake of Donald Trump winning the presidency. "Yes California," a campaign that aims to put a referendum on the 2019 ballot for the Golden State to leave the U.S., leads the charge.


CNN reported that 61 percent of the state’s voters supported Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and the state’s electoral college votes went to her.

"As the sixth largest economy in the world, California is more economically powerful than France and has a population larger than Poland. Point-by-point, California compares with countries, not just the 49 other states," read the campaign’s site.

While the "Yes" campaign has been considered a fringe movement, supporters of leaving the union took to Twitter after Trump won, using the hashtag #Calexit, a reference to the Brexit movement in Britain to leave the European Union.

The New York Daily News reported that one Twitter user issued a proposal in graphic form:


While not calling for the state to leave the union, two Democratic legislators in the state, Senate president Kevin de Leon and assembly speaker Anthony Rendon, issued a statement about the election results:
"We woke up feeling like strangers in a foreign land, because yesterday Americans expressed their views on a pluralistic and democratic society that are clearly inconsistent with the values of the people of California."
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Eric, it's been fun dreaming about jettisoning the knuckle draggers, but it probable isn't going to happen ala the Civil War.
However, at a more refined level, the idea is a very good one and should be seriously taken up.

The place to start is moving from Sanctuary Cities to Sanctuary States.  There is nothing illegal about a state choosing not to support federal immigration enforcement.   There's the clear measures of just not expending state/local staff/monies on any direct support, but the much more powerful measures could be tangling up any federal deporting force in bureaucracy of gaining facilities, turning on the electricity, water.  Perhaps assigning police resources to stop-and-frisk federal deporters - you know, just to be sure they have the proper gun permits and identification.  Make these states a living hell for federal deporting agents to live in and raise their families. There could be official websites with the names and photos of these families as a "safety precaution" for the communities. 

Next, would be multi-state compacts for health insurance.  Without the burden of the health problem epidemic in most of Trumpland and the comparative wealth of the Blue states, the cost of health insurance could be drastically reduced with more than a sufficient risk pool across the relatively very wealthy Blue states.  This plays off of the GOP insistence for  removing the regulatory barriers to x-state insurance; it will be too late for Trumpland morons to figure out they screwed themselves and their financial elites really won't care any way.

I think there are numerous ways for the Blue states to further disengage from Trumpland without some attempt at formal secession.  I think the Blues could be clever about playing off the Red's anti-climate hysteria to achieve dominance in energy and transportation. The Reds are already cutting their own throats by jettisoning expansion of high-speed Internet access in most of Trumpland; we need to at least encourage that if not find Silicon Valley ways to accelerate that - making Trumpland relatively blind could be the foundation for over powering them on the political front.  Maybe we should actually encourage more "higher level education" in Trumpland being centered on creationism, climate change denial, etc. with, of course scholarships to those bright enough to want to get out of the science-less hellholes.

I've just started on this.  I think its a gold mine.  Imagine the enormous creativity of Blue States' most creative cities focused on disengagement from the backward Reds in every facet of our lives?  The Trumpstes won't know what hit them.

I realize this would leave behind a lot of our Blue brethern and sisters in backwards Trumpland, but we can offer migration to a better future.  We could also set up entrance requirements to Blue Nirvana networks, organizations, processes that would allow entry for those states in Trumpland that can show they've tossed out the Trump behavioral patterns. 

Thoughts?