The man leading the effort to split California into two separate states has explained why the differences between liberals and conservatives are irreconcilable.
Paul Preston, a former school administrator, founded the New California State movement and has been trying detach the rural counties from ultra left-wing cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco for years.
Unlike the enduring efforts from Texas to secede from the United States entirely, Preston wants his new version of California to stay in the union. His main problem lies with the Democratic supermajorities in the state.
‘We recognized that we were in a tyranny,’ Preston told Fox News this week, referencing how Democrats overwhelmingly control both chambers of the state legislature.
California Democrats have a trifecta – or control of the state house, senate and governorship – as well as a triplex, meaning the party holds the attorney general’s office, the secretary of state as well as the governor’s office.
Preston said California is a ‘one party system’ that disregards the needs of its rural citizens and compared the state to the communist regimes of North Korea, China, Cuba and Venezuela.
Preston said Democrats have failed on a number of issues, including the migrant crisis and the growing amount of fentanyl coming into the state via the southern border.
The new map of California that Preston has proposed would include nearly all of California’s 58 counties and would exclude most of Los Angeles County, parts of Sacramento County and parts of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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