CALIFORNIA V. TRUMP: THE FIGHT BEGINS FOR HEALTH CARE, IMMIGRATION AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICA

[Alekzander]

Gavin Newsome on how & why California is ready to fight back


Updated | It began with a tweet, as so much does these days. The first shot in the coming war was fired in a 140-character burst by Shervin Pishevar, a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. “If Trump wins I am announcing and funding a legitimate campaign for California to become its own nation,” said the first in a volley of tweets by the Iranian-American technology investor. “As 6th largest economy in world,” he said three tweets later, “economic engine of nation, provider of a large % of federal budget, California carries a lot of weight.”This call to arms was retweeted thousands of times in those bewildering first hours of the Age of Trump. By the next morning, the movement for California to secede from the United States had made national headlines, with Pishevar anointed the movement’s leader. It even had a name, Calexit, an echo of the Brexit movement, which will eventually cleave Great Britain from the European Union. The nativist tone of Brexit foreshadowed the xenophobia of Donald Trump. Calexit is a kind of nativism too, except it’s fundamentally sunny in disposition—a Brexit for American liberals much more closely aligned with Western Europe than West Virginia.


http://www.newsweek.com/2017/02/03/california-can-defeat-trump-heres-how-542758.html

[KittyWampus]

1. Calexit is being run by a guy in Russia with bits of astroturf around it so it can masquerade

as being legit.

[Alekzander]

2. There is no masquerade & it is legit & it will be on the ballet next year.

[winetourdriver01]

3. Not a good idea

We need to stick together, both locally and nationally, to fight this. This is a war of fascism again liberalism, and the fascists have already won the first battle with the election of Twitler. And yes, Russia wants the USA to break apart, it would be sweet revenge for the break up of the USSR.

[Alekzander]

5. You certainly have a right to your opinion as we all do.

[winetourdriver01]

6. Yes

The more I've thought about the situation, the clearer it becomes: This is a war (WWIII) if you like, of fascism against liberalism. We are losing. No one knows how it will all end, we need to fight like our lives depend on it.

[NCjack]

4. Trump should like Calexit. He said Brexit was a great trading opportunity. Here

could be an opportunity closer to home.