As a Californian, I heartily lol when the topic of secession is brought up. Like, we've been propping y'all up for decades now. Don't threaten us with a good time.
Check again. Rural California has been gnashing their teeth trying to secede like crazy for years now. Wanting very badly to join the white supremacist in Idaho and Eastern Oregon. There's a lot of russian-backed astro Turf in it. But there is a real sentiment among the uneducated bigots.
If any given state could make a go of it on their own it's CA. Take that away from the USA and there would be some major shifts in the world economic policy. Why anyone would suggest such is a far fetched idea though.
Eh, don't inflate yourself that much. CA is important but it's still dwarfed by the country as a whole. Losing somewhere around 10% of the GDP and population would suck, but it's not the solitary pillar holding things up either.
Literally every other state in the union would have to approve it, and the odds of that happening are next to zero
We might as well discuss how I feel about a beautiful woman materializing next to me and asking for an ice cream cone for a nice date, we'd be talking about roughly the same odds of occurrence.
Considering how everyone here is predicting horrendous things if Trump wins, I'm surprised seccession isn't a more popular idea amongst the Californians here.
We're simultaneously being told that Trump is going to introduce death camps to the USA, but also that no one would want to leave the USA because that's crazy talk.