Doesn’t anybody, at this point?
I’m pretty sure there are a LOT of voices for American states to disentangle themselves from the USA
I’m pretty sure there are a LOT of voices for American states to disentangle themselves from the USA
When I lived in the US (left in 2018), there was zero appetite amongst politically active people to change this. If these feelings do exist now I’d expect them to be in their infancy.
Would love to have someone show me counter-indications though.
I’ve been hearing some calls for California independence, but frankly it’s a very recent thing as far as I know. The movement is probably weaker than the Alberta separation movement, and that thing is so weak modern Quebecan separation feels more likely.
There was a nascent calexit movement when I lived there but it had the stink of a Russian psyops campaign. This stifled a lot of interest in the issue of any existed in the first place.
I agree with your analysis 100%
In my experience, most issues that feel like a minority issue at best, but overall is a general negative to the entire nation and probably not that great for the people advocating it themselves, there’s a high chance of it being Russian psyops.
I mean, they’ve uncovered quite a bit of evidence that Brexit was exactly that even.
I’d love if the coasts just left the US and joined Canada.
As much as I’d like to, fully disengaging with the US, even only on trade, is simply impossible. Even if we were at a shooting war with each other, we’d probably still be trading because stopping entirely just isn’t realistic. Hell, Ukraine still trades with Russia right now.
We will always trade with the US unless if one of us somehow ceases to exist. That doesn’t mean that we can’t diversify though. We are far too reliant on the US for trade, as that puts us at their mercy on quite a few issues. It’s the entire reason why Alberta sells them oil far below world market prices, because we don’t sell oil to anybody else, so the US gets to dictate prices, and they say that they won’t buy unless if we give them 30% off on everything.
