Look, if someone said to me "Matt, I'll pay you to make a last stand in California", I'd be all about it. There's always a play—no matter how likely the chance of success, there's always a possible gambit. But there's no infrastructure/powerful enough forces willing to even try.
Which is why CA is, practically speaking, hopeless. The only hope here is the cleansing power of collapse. The purifying results of the death spiral.
And I don't blame anyone for not even wanting to try to save the state. You'd run up against some of the most powerful political cartels in the world and there is no political or cultural infrastructure with which to start. You'd have to build it all from scratch. Why bother?
So what is to be done? Seems pretty clear. Get thee to a red state, of course. Consolidate. Organize. Galvanize. Build communities and a new caste of red state leaders.
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