If California wants to break from the union, by all means let them. Everyone was talking about Texas leaving the union during the Obama years and of course that was fine with me as well. Now there is chatter about California leaving. Of course I'm not a lawyer so I don't know the details of how it can happen or even if legally can happen-but why couldn't it? After all, if you want move from a state, you can. Why can't a large group of people who want to leave the United States do so?
In my dream world, the residents of California, Texas, New Hampshire, West Virginia or wherever can do what they want, when they want. No matter how complex it might be or the consequences of their actions, they should absolutely be allowed to do whatever they wish. Forming a new country is complicated of course and once you get what you want, it might lead to a disaster-but if a the residents of a state want to commit a mass suicide-we shouldn't be asked to stop them.
I had not heard about this but if Quebec is anything to learn from, this is a bad idea. California being an incredibly liberal state, I can just see them becoming just as whiny yet economically and socially dependent on the rest of the USA as Quebec is to the rest of Canada.
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