Cal-Exit didn't make it
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| • | "We can do anything we like" and |
| • | "its okay to be stupid as long as you're coiffed and wearing makup" and let us not forget |
| • | that universal war cry which echoes from the mountains to the Pacific ... "Duh!" |
the California secessionist movement appears to have once again died.
Yes, I've heard of it before. No I didn't view it as viable then either. The current iteration lead by the 'Yes California Independence Campaign' spearheaded by one Louis Marinelli, a disillusioned millenial who is exiting the USA for Russia according to announced plans after the miserable failure of the Brexit styled attempt to impose his will on the state. До свидания, товарищ.
Now then, I believe there are Federal level considerations that a state referendum cannot address adequately and I seem to recall the deep south invoking similar plans to no avail ... can you say "confederacy" there little boy?
Brexit featured a referendum which was duly legislated at the level of the nation. Cal-Exit never was. A state is not a nation unto itself even if it consists of those who may think that. There is a frank difference between negotiating the legal aspects of a soverign nation in the process of part of it leaving.
Just placing it on the ballot doesn't qualify. There will be consequences for attempting to implement secession from the nation and you would think that those in California could learn those lessons incurred by the confederate states upon their unsuccessful bid to do the same.