The Secession Movement has reached an apex in 2013 in the
Golden State, with a Silicon Valley libertarian now pressing for California to
be divided into six separate states.
California, with thirty-eight million residents and growing,
has become too big not to fail.
Government pension liabilities remain unsecured and
underfunded. Public sector unions and well-lawyered lobbyists funded by
corporations and interest groups have taken control of the levers of power and
legal process. The Inland Empire, the Central Valley, and the coastal urban centers
have disparate interests, and leaders despair of ever resolving them any time
soon.
One potential state in Northern California, Jefferson, has
returned as a viable political possibility.
Here’s a better idea: Why not create “The State of
Sacramento”, a failed enclave overrun by all those political influences, and
allow every other city to run its affairs, free of the frustrations and follies
of the state capital?
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