LOOK WEST FOR THE LIGHT
Some of you may know that I have been advocating for the last ten years that California break away from the so-called United States. Furthermore, the Golden State should take Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii with it and form a more perfect union of our own, to be called Pacifica.
Some of you chuckled, patted me on the head, said it was an amusing idea, then advised me to pay a call on my shrink. I have continued in my alleged madness to advocate such secession, now more than ever, with Gauleiter Trump and the members of his dumb Trumpenprole cult dragging us into the teeth of the Coronavirus plague. Let’s flee that feverish end while we still have time!
Some of you may have watched The Rachel Maddow Show Tuesday night when Rachel interviewed our own Governor Gavin Newsom. She was properly complimentary to our governor, saluting him for his loan of 500 ventilators to New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and other suffering states. She also praised him for his bold leadership in being first to decree a stay-at-home order, a measure that has (so far) resulted in less than .5 deaths per 100,000 folks. For his part, Newsom informed Maddow that California, rather than competing with other states and the federal government for protective masks in such short supply, would instead go its own way; his administration had assembled a consortium of three non-profits and a California manufacturer to purchase from an Asian source 200 million masks a month, with any surplus to be distributed to other western states.
Some show of leadership! Initiative! So absent at the federal level. But the most exciting and portentous words from Newsom for me were that he called California a “Nation State.” Yep, he called it as it is—California, with the fifth largest economy in the world—a Nation State and the core of my Pacifica! Adding a tweak to my hopes, Newsom told Rachel of his close relations with Governors Kate Brown of Oregon and Jay Inslee of Washington. Now all we have to do is gather David Ige and Hawaii into the fold. Yes, hope flickers in the West. Just think—a mulligan, a do-over, the birth of a nation! Pacifica!
NB: Some of you may have missed today’s twitter message from our president, so I’ll dutifully pass it along: “HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY TO ALL.”