Krist Novoselic and others have formed the Cascade Party, a party that will exist only in Washington state. It supports proportional representation and wants to be a ballot-qualified party so as to help it run candidates for legislature. However, the Washington definition of a qualified party is one that polled 5% for president in the last election.
Therefore, its first step is to qualify for the presidential ballot this year. Then it will engage in lobbying and a potential lawsuit to change the state’s definition of a party. That definition has only existed since 2004. Before 2004, a qualified party was one that polled 5% for any statewide office. Since the definition changed, only the Democratic and Republican Parties have been ballot-qualified in Washington.
Here is the party’s website. Washington permits a group to get on for president with 1,000 signatures, which can be collected on-line. The party’s website illustrates how the petition can be circulated. Because the law requires the group to identify its national ticket, the party is running James Carroll for president and Krist Novoselic for vice president, but assuming they qualify, they will then withdraw as part of their plan to change the definition of “party.”
What Cascadia needs is a Cascadian Independence/Secession Party, not this proportional representation nonsense.
The country is so evenly divided now that if even one state seceded, they would be surrendering the rest of the country to their political opponents, including the entire federal apparatus.
So, I don’t think secession is a viable option for ANY state right now, whether red or blue
The country is not evenly divided. Republicans/conservatives are the majority.
Secession only isn’t an option if you discount nuclear deterrent to federal invasion.
It might trigger more states to secede. The country is in desperate need of a divorce. Likely of multiple.
Eastern Washington and Oregon, Northern California, Idaho, Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas and the Oklahoma panhandle are all Christian, socially conservative and small- or no-government agrarian. They would make a far better country on their own. If they could convince the like-minded Canadians in British Columbia and Yukon to join, they might even link up with Alaska which is similar.
It’s a much larger are than that. It extends here to Northern Florida and Southern Georgia. Even past here, all the way down to the glades.
Sounds like a communist party.
If the secession of one state precipitates others, that will be even worse. The loyal states will be more partisan in the opposite direction, leaving the federal government totally under there control.
This has happened before.
Again: we didn’t have a nuclear deterrent then.
Bob: more precisely, cryptocommunist.
Nothing lost.
Disagree that WA allows signature collecting online, unless Krist’s threatened legal challenge has caused the secretary of state to give.
Hello Richard Winger,
You made a mistake in this article, James Carroll is the Vice-Presidential nominee while Novoselic is their presidential nominee- not the other way around.
Comrades of the black hand,
If that was supposed to be at a general audience – no capice. Per favore, explain?
Krist Novoselic of Nirvana?
Yes.he’s been politically active. And commented here a bunch of times, but not recently.
HOW MANY PARTIES DEMANDING PR – IE ***REAL*** DEMOCRACY ???
Comrade Z,
Your question contradicts itself.
https://babylonbee.com/news/exclusive-the-babylon-bee-has-obtained-bidens-official-10am-to-4pm-daily-work-schedule
Joe Biden’s day.
SECESSION AREAS –
PAC OCEAN — GULF MEX COAST — GREAT LAKES — ATL OCEAN
PRESSURE ON CANADA TO DIVIDE/MERGE WITH ABOVE 4 AREAS
SECESSION AREAS — BY WATER DRAINAGE BASINS/AREAS
FLORIDA – BIT SPECIAL — MAY BE DOOM FLOODED VIA OCEAN RISES
Comrade Kent and Comrade Z:
Your attempted jokes are creative, but not very funny. Try puns,maybe?
HOW MANY CIVIL/FORN WARS TO CREATE/DESTROY NATION-STATES SINCE ADAM/EVE ???
USA 1775-1784 CIVIL WAR – SECESSION WITHIN BRIT EMPIRE >>> CURRENT COMMIE VS FASCIST ROT.
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PR
APPV
TOTSOP
IN ALL REGIMES — FOLKS CAN MOVE TO / CREATE THEIR FAVORITE LEFT/RIGHT REGIME
@Pig Farmer
But it’s not a single belt from Cascadia to the Everglades. It’s cut off by a chain of godless progressives running North to South from Minnesota to Arkansas then extending west to include non-panhandle Oklahoma and eastern Texas.
Uniting the North-West with the South-East in a single country would lead to many unnecessary problems inherent to countries consisting of disconnected land exclaves (e.g. Armenia-Artsakh and Azerbaijan-Nakhichevan). Better to have two smaller friendly nations in America.
@Walter Ziobro
Why is that a bad thing though? People who like the seceding states better can move there, people who like the “loyal” states better can move there.
And good riddance to the socialist West and North-East Coast, who will starve to death without the conservative grain-basket. Should have thought of that before destroying the country.
Comrade Z,
We are moving in the other direction now – one world government!
Godless progressives in Oklahoma and Eastern Texas? With few exceptions, only in the biggest cities and college towns. The vast majority of Texas and Oklahoma is conservative. Even the borderlands are socially conservative – they’ve been more apt to vote for Democrats, but that’s changing quickly. Mexican-Americans are sick of cartels and uncontrolled immigration, too.
Just about every state is conservative outside of big cities and their suburbs and college towns. Minnesota is a swing state now, and Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas have strong conservative majorities.
What’s needed is not so much a state by state national divorce – although kicking California out of the union would by itself fix many problems – as a move to weaken the political power of overly densely packed areas, and the restoration of voting limitation safeguards that were done away with over the years followed by repeal of unwise constitutional amendments (almost all the ones adopted starting in the 1860s, with a small number of exceptions).
Early steps would be Project 2025, followed by more rapid dismantling of the federal bureaucracy and regulatory state; withdrawal from international alliances and organizations; real border protection; gradual dismantling of the social welfare and entitlement states; immigration moratorium; rollback of woke federal policies; large scale deportation of illegals, and restoration of border security; grassroots movements enacting similar policies at state and local levels, etc.
It will be a step by step process, with smaller steps leading to bigger ones, but the Supreme Court took underappreciated steps just in the last few days. I have great optimism about where the process will lead.
If not – cities can’t feed themselves. We’ll easily win a civil war if it comes down to one. I certainly hope it does not.
“the Washington definition of a qualified party is one that polled 5% for president in the last election”
Oh, now I can clearly see the problem with that! It prevents growth of local or regional parties that don’t want to run presidential candidates.
Certainly, it’s absurd to presume all parties would want to contest the presidency.
Ballot censorship doesn’t stifle voters, create frustration and provoke secession from a fascist police state – that’s just disinformation, eh?
Comrade Robinson,
A proletarian dictatorial workers democratcy must censor all expression of counterrevolutionary views, including on ballots. Like, duh!