The budding California secession movement now known as Calexit by some has rumbled around for several years, but just gained more momentum to move forward.
Made of up of leftists who want to turn the Golden State into a socialist utopia, the Yes California group hopes to get enough support to have a ballot initiative to go before the voters in 2018.
The movement began back in 2015 as some voters argued that California isn’t getting its fair share of federal revenue to pay for needed infrastructure and social programs while its taxpayers are sending more than their fair share to other states that don’t embrace the offbeat cultural values of California.
Who knew Californians would embrace the states rights argument that fueled the Confederacy?
Naturally, observers on the other side of the argument may see an upside to California’s departure, given the fact that it harbors illegal immigrants who’ve become a financial burden on the educational and health systems, not to mention a conduit for the flow of criminal gangs and drugs into the United States.
On the next page, learn the next steps in the Calexit process and how state officials have helped the process along.
Bye!!!!
Zero problems with California exiting as long as they take their debt with them and do not seek any assistance from the United States.
Please do it!
Michael Statham, after the Civil War it was amended into the Constitution that states could not secede. Texas is the only state, I believe, that has some sort of work around to make it ok if they wanted to leave. That being said, I am for states’ rights (I am from South Carolina after all, home of the original secessionist party and proud of it!) so I am absolutely for California being able to secede if the majority of its residents feel that is what they want to do. However, if they go they need to take their debt with them and not seek any financial or military assistance from the United States.
Well…..bye !
Of course 70% of illeagals, leftists etc want nothing to do with America, go on, GTFO.
I’ll sign…
Chris L Edmister, that is not correct about leaving the agreement any time they want. After the Civil War the government (state and federal) have made it next to impossible to secede. Just read the article, it says that IF this proposal makes the ballot and IF the majority of voters vote for it then state legislatures and the governor have to take a look at the state constitution that says “California is inseparable from the United States.” So to peacefully leave requires a whole lot of “ifs” to happen. Now, if you are talking about another all out civil war, sure, states can leave that way any time they want I suppose if you can rally enough troops to fight. I am from South Carolina, home of the original secessionist movement and proud of it, there were many times over the last 8 years that I wished we could secede again. The truth remains, however, that to have a successful secessionist movement now you would have to have the majority of residents of a state agree to secede and a federal government that allowed you to leave OR, as in the original Civil War, you would have to have multiple states join together with a militia ready to fight back against the military. This is not the United States of the 1800s and I do not see states rising up with their own militias to defeat the military. I do feel that a civil war is coming, but I feel it’s coming over ideological issues and over who controls the federal government, once that happens I think secession will be more than a possibility.
Bye
Maybe that’s why Puerto Rico is looking to become the 51st state, so they can receive the same type of bail out money that California receives.