Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦<p>So we've all heard about the Calexit movement...they're collecting signatures to authorize a ballot initiative for California to secede from the US.</p><p>I've since learned that other secession movements are gathering steam. The Cascadia movement wants Washington and Oregon to join with CA and form a new nation. A New York/New Jersey movement is brewing, and there's a campaign for a Republic of New England, to incorporate MA, VT, NH, ME, CT, and RI.</p><p>Interestingly, the Texas secessionists, who raise their heads every so often, seem to be quiet. And there's likely others that I am unaware of.</p><p>A Balkanization of the US is scary, to be sure, but at the same time, many have predicted it for a while. A common thread is taxation...not that taxes are too high, but that these states, which are among those that pay the highest in taxes, get little in return, and some are angry over what they feel is subsidizing the rest of the country.</p><p>Is it coming? I'm not sure, but if the country continues to destabilize, it may be inevitable.</p><p>Cheery thoughts for a Tuesday morning...</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Secession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Secession</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Balkanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Balkanization</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Cascadia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cascadia</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/RepublicOfNewEngland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicOfNewEngland</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Scary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scary</span></a></p>