I'm afraid it's not sour grapes. Yesterday, the president-elect said that my vote was fraudulent, along with millions of my fellow Californians, without a shred of evidence. This is not the behavior of a U.S. President, this is the the behavior of a dictator. Donald Trump is a deeply unpatriotic man. We'll all have to see how long our patriotism lasts in the face of that.
There's also no reason to say that Calexit would be a violent removal, when it can approved with a vote of Congress. So far as the water situation in California, it gets a share of the Colorado River water which is used extensively in the Imperial Valley (the southeast tip), but most sources are entirely in-state. There's no real reason that the existing Colorado relationship can't continue. I think the more worrying sticking point would be the US Navy base at San Diego -- it's hard to see the U.S. giving that up. We'd probably need to lease it to the U.S. in a Guantanamo Bay-style relationship. We could have our own Navy based at the SF Bay.
Note that all of this is just conjecture on my part as I'm not an advocate for Calexit yet, but it's something to think about.
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There's also no reason to say that Calexit would be a violent removal, when it can approved with a vote of Congress. So far as the water situation in California, it gets a share of the Colorado River water which is used extensively in the Imperial Valley (the southeast tip), but most sources are entirely in-state. There's no real reason that the existing Colorado relationship can't continue. I think the more worrying sticking point would be the US Navy base at San Diego -- it's hard to see the U.S. giving that up. We'd probably need to lease it to the U.S. in a Guantanamo Bay-style relationship. We could have our own Navy based at the SF Bay.
Note that all of this is just conjecture on my part as I'm not an advocate for Calexit yet, but it's something to think about.
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