What will be the next exit?

I don’t know how closely you follow American politics below the national level, but there has been continuing talk – of which I doubt anything will materialize, but who knows? – about Calexit.

^Yeah. Good call. They might want to get the wildfires under control first. I think they sometimes have to rely on federal money to deal with them…

I always heard of Texas seceding. Doubt it, at the moment though. I think they support the current administration too much…

Quebec exit.

That would be a Quexit, @RedDeerGuy1 :-)

Texit would be ok with me, especially if Texas takes much of the Bible Belt and Southeast with them.

I’d also be happy with Calexit or better, Cascadia consisting of Califonia, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia… which I would be happy to exit with.

Texas, especially if a far left democrat is elected. They are poised to actually do it. The state is not landlocked, deeply red, has an islanded electric grid and a wealth of natural gas and oil.

That would be a Texit. It has a nice ring to it.

Don’t forget the WAxit. Western Australia wants to secede from Australia.

Catalexit in Spain.

Would it be Kurdexit?
Withdrawal of Kurdish portions of Syria, Iran, Turkey, Iraq consolidated into Kurdistan.

Trumplexit

wishful thinking

Sexit

When genders trade places

If Trump starts deporting illegal workers it will be a Mexit.

Puertoriquexit?

I wouldn’t blame them, TBH

The Catholic Church has promoted SEXIT for centuries.

If war starts between USA and NK then South and North Korea won’t Ko-exist..)

^^They don’t Ko-exist now. That’s the problem.

Calexit, Texit and Quexit have been talked about for as long as I’ve been alive. None of them could survive at their present standard of living without Federal backup and they know it. It’s all bullshit.

The creator of Playboy did a Hefnexit yesterday.

One of the chief reasons that I do not expect any peaceful “exits” or other secession from long-established national governments is that a successful move of that sort would then have to work pretty strongly to prevent further secession. For example, take California.

Not everyone in California is so deeply offended by the current turn in national politics that they want to break away from the rest of the United States. But let’s say that a majority (or a vocal and powerful enough minority) managed to pull off a vote that passed whatever legislative hurdles it needed to, and was then “generally” supported by the public AND not strongly or forcefully opposed by the federal government. If California secedes, then it’s just as likely that within a year or two, Southern California would then secede from Northern California. After all, once the precedent is established, then what would be the legal hurdle to clear? And I have no doubt that a smaller California would be warmly welcomed back into the Union.

In addition, if Northern California secedes and remains apart from the USA – and wars don’t start nor wildfires, mudslides, earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis signal the end of the world – then it’s pretty likely that some communities in that region might feel oppressed by whatever governing body remains (or grows). So there’s no good political reason why individual communities couldn’t also secede from California itself, and unless California wants to call out a state militia (not the National Guard, I guess) to stop them with violence, then who knows where that process might end? Could individual citizens secede as well? Who knows.

The issue of debt is, I think, a red herring. Even the US government will never be able to pay off its current debt, but that hasn’t caused it (yet) to fail as an entity, and dollars are still accepted around the world… for now.

But I led this essay with a prediction about “established national governments”. Since I doubt that the separate European nations that make up the European Union will ever give up sovereignty to the extent that they make the continent of Europe “a nation”, I do fully expect that Union to break down into (at best) what it used to be: a loose association of sovereign nations with lowered trade and immigration barriers among the members. So, who’s first: Grexit? Brexit? Irexit?

I’m betting Brexit… but I’m not betting much.

Saw a post on Facebook on a similar thread, hands down favorite was for Connecti-cut.

Looking at news of recent days from España, I’m thinking that my statement from a few days ago about regions and states exiting “established national governments” is being tested there.

Who knows, but we may see a Catexit soon, if the Catalan Independence movement continues to gain support – and even as hard as it seems to be suppressed by Madrid.