In the wake of a massive Trump election victory in 2016 constituents in the overwhelmingly leftist state of California have discussed and threatened secession. It would be a positive development for a few reasons. First, it would make it much simpler for a conservative like Trump to be re-elected President of the union of states (due to the 50 leftist electoral college votes now excluded). Second, it would force the leftists of California to stand for something and define themselves independently as opposed to just being anti-American. Third, it would be a test case for anti-federalism more generally, such as was discussed (keeping independent colonies) after the revolutionary war of independence from Britain. Collectively, the consequences of California secession and hypothetical ignition of a broader secession movement would be to grant self-determination to dissidents and concomitantly serve to invigorate the case for social unification amongst the balance of union states, which, given the current state of factionalization, are on the edge of a precipice in terms of civil disorder, which of course has consequences related to loss of individual liberty.
If California seceded from the union, Trump and his dynasty of conservative leadership would have a simpler path to electoral victory. Currently the electoral map requires 270 delegate votes, a quarter of which come from California (55). When California is combined with New York (31), the Democrat party really only needs a few more Northeast states and a couple more to win. That is an undue advantage given that nobody in California really even has representation because the illegals flood the state and disenfranchise the voting constituency with their illegal vote stuffing ballot boxes with provisionals and corrupt politics and electioneering.
California secession would mean that the state is once again a sovereign republic (cf 1846 Bear Flag Revolt cum Mexican American war) with freedom to make its own choices. Originally, militants in Sonoma declared independence from Mexico and California was freely subsumed into the United States. In a twist of fate, California secession from the United States today would have implications such that political leftists (whom overwhelmingly comprise California’s constituency base), in accords with their anti-American open border policy, would most likely effectuate a re-annexation of the territory’s boundaries to Mexico, in effect, acting as agents of the irredentist Aztlan reconquista. A knock-on effect of this development would be socialization of leftists to consequences of their anti-Americanism and open borders, which would force them to define themselves, in this case, as Latin American socialists. Obviously a political revolution, in this case, secession movement, is not necessary for people to become Latin American socialists; America is a free country and people are here at will with freedom to leave. Nevertheless, Latin American socialism and the North/Anglo American free enterprise system are incompatible political economic cultures and excising the leftists would help decouple the balance of the union, in that hypothetical case, from its deep polarization, lack of cohesion and socio-economic malaise associated with its preferred political economic model of Latin American socialism.
California secession would be a test case for revisiting the anti-federalist movement generally, as was discussed in transition government planning following the revolutionary war of independence from the British monarchy. A broad base of dissident states may join the secessionist movement, although none has accomplished this since Lincoln’s war against South Carolina in 1860 when it attempted the same trick. The outlook for a prospective secession movement is much improved over the period from a century and a half ago especially given that, if we assume coerced agribusiness labor was the rationale - if only a pretextual one - for the federal government to launch a war against southern confederate states, we can also assume there is no basis for the same rationale or pretext today, due to a lack of formally coerced slavery (except by the IRS, but that’s a different subject).
An excision of independents (those seeking to secede - including California) would solidify the base of federal union states in cooperation toward shared values and norms, making it simpler to administer popular government. Currently, we have a multicultural paradigm - amongst a multiplicity of states - which, in the now infamous words of Fmr Senator and candidate for President Hillary Clinton, is the “human variant of mad cow disease”. There are riots going on all over the country as a result of diametric cultural opposition to traditional American values as represented in views of 45th President elect Donald Trump. This state of factionalization puts Americans on the edge of a precipice in terms of civil disorder with implications for loss of individual liberty due to tyranny of police state required to dampen terrorism. Removing these elements by political independence (as opposed to jail or war) would have the modern effect of protecting independence of voluntarily/freely associating constituencies + greasing the gears of social and economic cooperation amongst an affinity group of states in the balance of the union.
And this from @zerohedge
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-10/calexit-california-secession-petition-gaining-strength-after-trump-win
There will be a petition in the spring of 2017 for California secession. Vote yes! Let’s get this process rolling!
Commentary on Twitter:
Glenn Beck (who works for Clinton Global Initiative/George Soros/Federal Reserve/UN/NATO ravenous international morality cloaked imperialist dictatorship) weighs in on the topic - spoiler: he condemns secession (of course).