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Because the east coast will form Mega-City One.

Do you really want to merge with Quebec?

So, this was pushed for a while and was later discovered to be Chinese propaganda. But it holds water is the thing.

Breaking into smaller counties isn't the solution because you lose economies of scale and inefficient trade. Which was why China pushed it, to leave themselves and the EU as the largest single economies in the world.

The real solution is to regionalize block of states and instead of having one head of state as President, a council of state like Switzerland with a rotating chair that functions as the ceremonial head of state.

But that would take a new constitution...

I like this because it’s closer to “articles of confederation” version of the proto United States which imo is closer to anarchism although still far from it.

Texas immediately invades smallest Southern states

Yes, as a Californian leftist, our government has always been more interested in money than people, and it will continue to be a problem. NIMBYs will be the death of us.

Do you think Canada is on average that much more leftist than California? Canada has plenty of Trump supporters and they aren't even US citizens.

Canada's prisoners work on average for 30¢ an hour. I don't think they car about prison slavery there.

California has a rural state within it that's called The State Of Jefferson and it's very rural and conservative. You can just cut that part out of Cascadia

As a Washingtonian, I would unironically support this. I'm sick of being forced to fund a fucking genocide.

Yep. There’s a reason me and my wife left Mississippi a few years ago for Washington.

It's super convenient because Hawaii and Alaska are in boxes just off the west coast on maps.

Never forget

Same here, this sounds like the best thing I dare hope for at this point

So, I think this could happen. Trump and Musk are just trying to speedrun smashing the administrative state; it's difficult to overstate the enormity of the damage they're going to do to the federal government's ability to govern over the next two months. Laying off all these administrators and closing their offices is going to create a glut of administrators at the same time as it creates a demand for administrative capacity to make up for what the feds dropped. Plus, they're going to want to stop California, but how will they when they've gone and replaced every competent person in the DOJ/DOD/FBI/CIA with incompetent stooges?

California has an advanced enough administrative state to handle breaking off, jokes aside. California also has the economy. Here's the kicker: California has the geography. California would be a complete bitch to invade; for most of the coastline, the mountains (hills, as the locals call them, but they ARE mountains) just run right into the ocean, and the ocean is notoriously a bastard for much of that coastline; as for an overland route, there's basically, like, three big highways that cross the Sierra Nevadas to inland Cali. A couple of big bombs or cal fire bulldozers would make short work of them. Plus, California has a LOT of agriculture to support itself with. Basically, the one weak spot is water supply, and we could be doing a lot better than we are if we just tightened up on our industrial, livestock, and rich dumbass consumption.

Or any other state