California goes confederate

The conclusion for this article doesn't follow from the argument.

> California's crumbling roads and bridges sometimes resemble those of the old rural South. The state's public schools remain among the nation's poorest. Private academies are booming for the offspring of the coastal privileged, just as they did among the plantation class of the South.

> California, for all its braggadocio, cannot not leave the U.S. or continue its states'-rights violations of federal law. It will eventually see that the new president is not its sickness, nor are secession and nullification its cures.

Broken down roads have nothing to do with Trump's suitability for the presidency, nor secession.

> [California] hosts the largest numbers of impoverished and the greatest number of rich people of any state in the country.

Well, given that it has the largest population, I would expect it to have the highest numbers.

California, the state with the strictest gun laws, and among the lowest per capita of gun owners in the US thinks it is going to secede? Given the Constitution's ambiguity on this subject, the actual only path to resolution is armed conflict. Anyone who thinks this President won't follow the same path as Lincoln is gravely mistaken. The United States can't afford to let the 5th (or is it the 12th) largest economy in the world to detach.

This article is one giant [Citation Needed]. For example:

> California's crumbling roads and bridges sometimes resemble those of the old rural South. The state's public schools remain among the nation's poorest. Private academies are booming for the offspring of the coastal privileged, just as they did among the plantation class of the South.

> Some California officials have talked of the state not remitting its legally obligated tax dollars to the federal government and expanding its “sanctuary” cities into an entire “sanctuary” state that would nullify federal immigration law.

In response to Trump threatening to withhold federal funding.

> Californians also now talk about the value of the old Confederate idea of “states' rights.” They whine that their state gives far too much revenue to Washington and gets too little back.

Except this whining is about feeling screwed over in voting rights and watching a president who does little to nothing to represent a very liberal/immigrant heavy state. Seemingly he feels he has no need to. He also keeps bringing up the idea that California only went against him because of illegal voting, which is a real slap in the face.

Vs we want slaves.

> Residents boast about how their cool culture has little in common with the rest of the U.S. Some Californians claim the state could easily go it alone, divorced from the United States.

California has a lot in common with other states? They have a huge economy and a lot of advantages that show they probably could do fine without the rest. I'm not sure why people would expect them to just sit there and go "I love the rest of the US" when the rest of the US is constantly shitting on California as liberal elites, not real americans, etc...

> In eerie irony, liberal California is now mirror-imaging the arguments of reactionary South Carolina and other Southern states that vowed to go it alone in 1860 and 1861.

Except for that whole slavery thing.

> California is becoming a winner-take-all society. It hosts the largest numbers of impoverished and the greatest number of rich people of any state in the country. Eager for cheap service labor, California has welcomed in nearly a quarter of the nation's illegal aliens. California is home to one-third of all the nation's welfare recipients.

Gee, almost like it's the most populous state.

> But such reactionary Confederate obstructionism is still quite an irony given California's self-righteous liberal preening.

uh huh.