All this talk of secession—Calexit, Texit, etc., etc. Why would we even think of this? The issue of “the right to secede” brought us the Civil War. And if I were a Canadian, I wouldn’t have any interest whatsoever in erasing any political boundaries between us and the Americans. I might be thinking about building a wall.
Do we think we could even walk into a Target or Starbucks and find that everyone under that roof is in political accord—even in northern California? Can you even show me a single organization—how about a church?—that doesn’t have some kind of internal political issues going on? If not, why would we think we can draw a huge geographical boundary and not have to work and struggle and compromise in order to get along with the others inside it? That’s what we have to do now, and not try to segregate ourselves into little like-minded groups that by definition would have strong differences with their neighbors.
According to this KQED news story, Russia is supporting a movement called “Calexit,” which is led by a American who lives in Russia, and has funded various other initiatives to break up the U.S. KQED is the PBS station in San Francisco.
Quote from article:
“This is what Russia is great at,” says Robert English, an expert on Russia and associate professor of international relations, Slavic languages and environmental studies at USC. “Their media apparatus is so good at spreading disinformation. It makes the line between nutsos and normal people hard to draw.”
Another article I read yesterday quoted a former advisor to the Kremlin who said that the Kremlin loves chaos in the world; the more chaos, the better for the Kremlin. Exactly what we got in the presidential campaigns and we are still getting, more of it every day.