The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding to California, an effort which could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.
This is all factually correct, but I hope Californian comrades are talking to their local liberals about this stuff. “Normie” types don’t like what’s going on and are down to think about what life would look like without Trump in the picture.
“Yeah if they cut all federal funding, then why are we paying ~30% as a state to the US? Let’s just stop, what’s the worst that could happen?”
This has never been in the media before so you can finally kick of an actual political conversation that has very few existing brainworms.
Maybe in a decade “West coast secessionist” viewpoints have a space in the conversation, although at the fringe of the mainstream (thinking along the lines of “alt-right”). This sort of internal tension is bad for the empire and good for the global south. I think socialists should be advocating for it. We know that the Democratic voter base, and even many Republican voters are to the left of the Democratic Party on a lot of social issues. Weakening the DNC means we could actually get some socdem shit done while things are unstable and on decline.
Ideals don’t drive the wheels of history, but they do steer them. As you said, this is not something that is practical materially, but on the ideological battlefield, we need to wield it as a rallying point for something to the left of neoliberalism. If everything goes well, you’d probably get the West coast to be another Canada tbh. Maybe would even make sense to annex in to Canada?
This is all factually correct, but I hope Californian comrades are talking to their local liberals about this stuff. “Normie” types don’t like what’s going on and are down to think about what life would look like without Trump in the picture.
This has never been in the media before so you can finally kick of an actual political conversation that has very few existing brainworms.
Maybe in a decade “West coast secessionist” viewpoints have a space in the conversation, although at the fringe of the mainstream (thinking along the lines of “alt-right”). This sort of internal tension is bad for the empire and good for the global south. I think socialists should be advocating for it. We know that the Democratic voter base, and even many Republican voters are to the left of the Democratic Party on a lot of social issues. Weakening the DNC means we could actually get some socdem shit done while things are unstable and on decline.
Ideals don’t drive the wheels of history, but they do steer them. As you said, this is not something that is practical materially, but on the ideological battlefield, we need to wield it as a rallying point for something to the left of neoliberalism. If everything goes well, you’d probably get the West coast to be another Canada tbh. Maybe would even make sense to annex in to Canada?