Lent Post: State of Jefferson

Salvete.

Today I heard The Blaze cover the State of Jefferson. I've known about the state of Jefferson for about a year, but I was excited to learn from The Blaze that three counties thus far support the secession. Unfortunately, I live too far south in California to be largely affected, but I very much want my county to join the movement. Essentially, from what I recall of the state of Jefferson, there was an attempt in the 1940s to split from California. While, of course, it didn't work (particularly because of the Pearl Harbor bombing and the start of World War II), it makes far more sense in today's standards. Literally, millions of Republican conservatives are being politically drowned out. When we try to stop the union corruption, the unions out-fund and defeat us. We are taxed without our consent, and we are forced to accept liberal policies, both social and fiscal. These policies have driven California into a dust-bowl, impoverished humiliation, and we desperately want out. I want red counties from the northern, Jefferson-supporting Siskiyou County to the southern Kern county to secede from the Californian government.

Would the economy of Jefferson work? It definitely would not have an economy as large as California's, but it would avoid the economic catastrophes that California has had over the years, such as an enormous debt and a monstrous government. It would function like a Midwestern state, with a small economy and perhaps undesired funds from the United States government, but relatively economically free. Whereas liberals could slander the Southern states as supposedly "racist" or "sexist" or "gun-toting," Jefferson would take a new approach to conservatism, one that would break stereotypes and be a positive light to conservatism. Would the innovation coming from Silicon Valley stop? Secession would cut its flow but would in no means halt the wave of innovation entirely; high school students from Northern California often travel south for their college education but move back north for work.

This is not a independence pipe-dream like the Scottish-independence fiasco that my friend at http://iconosceptic.wordpress.com/ bemoans. This is an upset faction choosing to leave failed policies and bogged-down bureaucracy for decently better policies and economic security, not the other way around.

I, Trygve Plaustrum, support secession from the state of California and formation of the state of Jefferson.