The constitution does address secession, by stating that any state wishing to depart the union may do so WITH THE CONSENT OF ALL THE OTHER STATES. That was a possibility when there were only a few states, but I seriously doubt that California could get agreement for secession from the other 49. On the other hand, this does keep many idiots busy with their fantasy, and distracts them from other problems they could cause.

Got a good visual of a snowflake army, but then, they are snowflakes. I can't see them as an army fighting anything but Conservatives who want to speak on their college campuses. So if this would happen, the snowflakes will go to their safe spaces and Mexico will have Kalifornia back without any armed combat at all.

The Birmingham area in Alabama drowns all my red vote state votes in a county-wide large lake of blue.

I'm now reminded when I was an underpaid small town with a rural county inclued newspaper reporter during the 70s in Alabama.
It was especially during President Jimmy Carter's lefty reign of ineptitude did I hear several conservatives say they were going to move to Australia.
They never went.
They wouldn't like it now with that gun ban anyway.

No, they can't, but they will try. My son and I were discussing this yesterday. Water rights will get them in the end. But isn't it like the Liberals to have not one rational thought and not think one step ahead.

So Texans values the "perpetual union" more than the constitution, liberty, and free markets? Sounds more like big city Illinis than most Texans that I have known.

The Nut and Jeff story...

Secession always looks good to those who put their own terms, rather than reality's terms, on it... Look at the whole State of Jefferson movement (in Northern California, BTW)... It's pie in the sky to think they can survive, somehow, surrounded by blue states and with not much other than federal support (at LEAST until they rebuild some kind of infrastructure, which may take years if not decades) , but the reality is this part of the state, while red as cherries, is rife with unemployment, no industry since the 1960's (or maybe 70's, certainly not now), and nothing but political rhetoric and a sketchy economic plan to make it work.

California is in much the same boat, but for different reasons - the Calisecessionists think somehow the magical dotgov will pay their way (even without the dotgov), they think they can tax an already hyper-overtaxed populous and keep milking that puppy dry, somehow businesses will flock TO the new People's Republic of Nuts, eager to pay higher taxes (yeah, right)...

Combining this west coast disaster, if the PRC secedes, the Jeffersonians swear they will secede from the Brownian/Newsomian Kingdom of Nuts to become a state again... Of course, the one resource they have in abundance - water - is controlled by the US Gov, who can make a trade deal with the Nation of Nut, and still sell out the water to them. Timber is so poorly managed that we have entire bare sections of land that are overgrown in Manzanita (which, IIRC, isn't used for much except bird perches and forest fire fuel...)

No one involved in any of this has the least basis in reality, and so far, all are living in a fantasy world where their wishes come true, blind to the fact that it takes work to make things work... it doesn't magically appear like manna from the sky.

And no one - not the techies who want to secede, to the Tea-party conservatives in Jeff, can explain how they plan on making it work, instead appealing to mob acceptance - rather than reality. And living in the Kingdom of Nut, and the State of Jeff, we're rightly worried that whatever happens, we're on the brown end of the otherwise clean stick...

Oh, yeah! Say buh-bye to all sorts of federal assistance.

LOL!
The All-Inclusive Red State South shall rise again?
Nah!

Yep!

Me dino just imagined a rag tag snowflake army trying to stave off an attack by a combat with cartels hardened Mexican Army out to reclaim Old California from twit Kalifornians.

People who try to cope with an A is K reality commit suicide on different levels~including personal economic collapses~every day.

Little book? LOL! Galt's radio address alone coulda fit into a little book.
People are people indeed~even if they were still using typewriters and smoking up a storm in public places like restaurants.

Thanks for the info. The data I have must be outdated. It was decidedly one-sided. But then I seem to recall that the military's recruitment in recent years has taken its hits and that many who started reaching the upper ranks decided to retire instead. I don't think there is any question, however, which of the two leading parties is more critical of our men and women in the Armed Forces.

"most Active Military members vote Republican - not Democrat."
The data MikeMarotta posted from the Hoover Institution says it's 28.8% Democrat, 25.5% Republican, and 36% independent. When they offered "R/D leaning" options, it was 36.4% Democrat, 37.7% Republican, 22.9% independent, and 3.0% other.

I do not think they asked the independents if they usually vote Democrat or Republican.

If that data is right, people in the military do not overwhelmingly support one party or the other.

Methinks they A is K moocher mentality think they can wriggle out of it by utilizing some kinda smoke and mirrors from which magic bunnies and Mad Hatters appear.
I know what I wrote looks crazy but anything Kalifornia is not about any sort of sanity.

Methinks those moochers want A is K to somehow get out of owing that $1.3 trillion.
Just as they A is K think a People's Republic of Kalifornia can achieve a socialist utopian paradise.
You know, how that worked out for the Soviet Union.

They'll never keep their asylum going without the Federal Government teat.

Yes, I like that. We could say The South Without Borders Shall Rise Again. That should please the No Borders crowd...well, probably not.

Need to add Brown, Waters, and Boxer to your list.

It could be a net benefit to the rest of us. With 39 million people how much would we save in Social Security and Medicare. The might just become solvent again!

The former Confederate State of Texas is already included in "The South shall rise again." Any red state like Idaho is invited along for the ride.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbU3z...

All you got to do is read this little book called Atlas Shrugged...you may have heard of it!.....It is actually amazing how predictable this whole farce can be. I used to grouse at old farts that made dire predictions like this, but it doesn't matter what the age or how "Modern" we become, people are still people and things will roll out in a predictable manner when you go down certain well worn paths.

Wow, a very good point. This Alabama dino is unfamiliar with that part of the country. Had to look Lake Mead up~
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mead

If California wants to try it, they'll destroy themselves far faster than any war. They currently (pun intended) buy the majority of their power from other Western States. If they secede, those States can then drive up the prices of electricity and hasten their economic collapse.