Broadly speaking? For the same reason every other state does. Continental unity opens up trade and travel, exploits economies of scale, and simplifies the legal system for interstate business and for civil rights purposes.
Specifically? Because federal coordination helps manage natural disasters (like wildfires) and centralize big programs life Medicare/SS and secures national defense (which California profits from handsomely).
They declared theyre not foing to be helping us with disasters, though. So what the fuck is the point?
Just so they can invade our cities and kidnap our neighbors to die in the florida swamp?
If we need trade allies, mexico sounds pretty great. They actually make things there. We share language food and while not perfectly aligned on values, are far closer than the eastern neighbors, who loudly hate us-and it’s rapidly becoming mutual.
Edit:Not that i would hold turning palo alto to a sheet of luminous glass against anyone on the planet.
Frankly, Cali, Oregon, and Washington ought to form a Western Coast Pact, where if one of them gets unfair treatment from the feds, they all lock down their ports. Trump’s tariff tax on Americans, plus shipping delays and extra shipping costs would make the general public pretty mad at the situation. Hypothetically, companies can (they won’t) absorb tariff costs, but supply line interruptions are immediate total chaos, and can have knock-on effects for decades
Broadly speaking? For the same reason every other state does. Continental unity opens up trade and travel, exploits economies of scale, and simplifies the legal system for interstate business and for civil rights purposes.
Specifically? Because federal coordination helps manage natural disasters (like wildfires) and centralize big programs life Medicare/SS and secures national defense (which California profits from handsomely).
They declared theyre not foing to be helping us with disasters, though. So what the fuck is the point?
Just so they can invade our cities and kidnap our neighbors to die in the florida swamp?
If we need trade allies, mexico sounds pretty great. They actually make things there. We share language food and while not perfectly aligned on values, are far closer than the eastern neighbors, who loudly hate us-and it’s rapidly becoming mutual.
Edit:Not that i would hold turning palo alto to a sheet of luminous glass against anyone on the planet.
Frankly, Cali, Oregon, and Washington ought to form a Western Coast Pact, where if one of them gets unfair treatment from the feds, they all lock down their ports. Trump’s tariff tax on Americans, plus shipping delays and extra shipping costs would make the general public pretty mad at the situation. Hypothetically, companies can (they won’t) absorb tariff costs, but supply line interruptions are immediate total chaos, and can have knock-on effects for decades
It’s unlikely; lotta nazis deliberately go to the pnw, but would be cool.
The California will rise
again!I don’t normally downvote. Looks like someone else already did that. So I don’t have to.