Every day I see more and more evidence that the west coast alliance will eventually split. We’ve shown a level of solidarity, resistance to federal/fascist occupation, and preparedness in replacing lost federal services that would do us well. I’d expect that if elections go as obviously fucked as they seem like they might over the next 3 years, that we might actually just fuckin do it. If we took our economic ball with us, there would be good incentive for NATO to recognize us as independent from Trump’s America. I really hope our governors are at least planning contingency for this kind of reality.

Maybe it won’t happen. It’ll be rocky as hell, but so is just sticking with things as they are. The biggest losses would actually be that it’d be hard to maintain unification with other states that might seek to separate from the fascist state; New York, Colorado, etc. I suppose Alaska would probably remain in Trump’s America, so geographic fragmentation I suppose isnt entirely insurmountable but it does get tricky to be surrounded entirely by fuckin Nazi sympathizers.

The other big downside is obviously any sort of pushback we’d provide to further oppression of minorities in the shithole states. It really sucks to bail on black people in the south like that, or trans people everywhere, or… women. But at a certain point we have to look out for the freedom and safety of our own.