I love how people can think that the United States isn't a real democracy and is actually controlled by moneyed and well organized interests, which is correct, and then also think that things would be better if the country be divided into smaller states that would be invariably controlled by the same interests. Like if you think that the Democrats are the politicians enthralled by finance and tech capital who are ever at odds with the Republicans who are the politicians in hoc to finance and extractive capital, what does an independent West Coast Democracy look like and what does Texas look like? Capitalists who have decided to stop competing with each other for the moment and consolidate their power regionally before trying to do imperialism against each other again. Sounds bad, folks.