California morphing into a separate country over immigration

[rangerrebew]

California morphing into a separate country over immigration

October 9, 2018
 

Brian Lonergan

“Go west, young man.”

 

Horace Greeley’s words effectively captured the ethos of westward expansion in nineteenth century America. They also contributed to our national fascination with California as a land of opportunity. From the gold rush to the birth of Hollywood to the rise of Silicon Valley, California was the place where ambition, entrepreneurship and big dreams could yield spectacular rewards.

 

Today, people are rejecting Greeley’s advice. Not only are few Americans moving to California, but residents are fleeing the state en masse. Why? Maybe because decades of mismanagement by state leaders has increased the cost of living, caused taxes to skyrocket and made people feel less safe. A driving force for this malaise has been California’s myopic decision to become a sanctuary for illegal aliens, and all the negative consequences that come with it. The result is that California is no longer the American Dream, but effectively a separate country altogether. On its current trajectory, California will soon resemble a Third World nation: cash-strapped, terrorized by rampant crime, and with a balkanized population lacking any connective societal tissue.

http://www.irli.org/single-post/2018/10/09/California-morphing-into-a-separate-country-over-immigration

[Fishrrman]

I claim to be the first person to ask "the Ann Landers question" regarding California:

Would America be better off with California, or without it?

Without California, would America as a whole become more conservative, or less so?
Without California, would the Congress be more conservative, or less so?
Without California, would Americans have more of a burden from illegals and illegal immigration, or less so?

Some claim that the issue of whether or not states could secede from the Union was settled in 1865.
But what does the Constitution say about -expelling- a state that will no longer accept Constitutional principles...?

[The_Reader_David]

Would America be better off with California, or without it?

I think we should encourage the Calexit movement.  If they vote to secede, we can either negotiate a amicable secession -- at mimimum I'd require perpetual leases on our naval bases, plebiscites in all counties of California neighboring other states on whether to remain in the seceded California Republic (that's what their flag says) or join a neighboring state, a robust free-trade agreement, and the California peso (or whatever they call their currency) being pegged to the dollar for a span of not less than five years -- or alternatively, take their secession at face value, and give them the treatment the Confederacy got, complete with a Sherman-like march on San Francisco (or LA), and radical reconstruction.  Either way (at least until reconstruction is over) there are a whole lot fewer Democrats in Congress and 54 locked Democrat electoral votes out of the picture.