The Post American Experience

California is going to divide. It is the only sane way to bring the state govt back under control. Discard all the nonsense laws, make new states to make new laws which can be sane instead of contrary and nuts. America is insane too. The ones who voted in the current powers have wrecked everything they've touched, and it is permanently broken because that's how law works. Precedent. America is totalitarian now. America is going to divide up to end that behavior because there is no other way to do it. The powers won't impeach to end this trend, they won't correct the abuse or throw the crooks in jail for violating actual laws. The corruption is completely open at this point.

Staying together isn't working. We must divide and fix things locally. What will America be like, divided instead of United?

1. Trade tariffs across state lines. Many states have been screwing with each other for decades this way. This just makes it more formalized.
2. Resource wars and hoarding. Water and food are coming from certain states and flowing to others. Costs will change.
3. Exporting critical goods for a profit overseas instead of selling locally. 
4. Ending many bureaucracies which only existed as political payoffs by crooked elections, and sort of linger on. Dumping millions of otherwise useless people out of govt payrolls will drastically change the places money is wasted by govt.
5. Infrastructure spending, roads and bridges in particular, will finally receive more attention, though interstate borders will get tricky.
6. Smuggling across state lines will slow down commerce. Regional agreements and inspection stations will rise, and more govt will shift to border controls.
7. Decentralization of processing will be important. Many more power plants and refineries will be built, with local control. Fracking production more likely to stay domestically available, and exploitation reduced since workers can be locally retaliated against if poisoning happens instead of flee for China. Motivation for clean oil extraction obvious.
8. Anywhere growing food will do food preservation and processing for max profit rather than ship elsewhere. Tariffs on food imports will stabilize prices for producers.
9. Local machine shops for parts, rather than relying on imports with uncertain tariffs will employ many workers and allow specialization to local demand.
10. The National power grid will end. State power grids and city power grids will become the new normal. Rural blackouts will be the rule, not exception. Selling power across state lines will require various treaties and agreements.
11. US dollar ends. Its been doomed since Quantitative Easing started, since that's Inflation of the money supply. New currencies will replace the Dollar with something based on actual value , like bearer bonds for commodities. Not threats.

Getting used to all these things will simplify life for many people, a less complex society with a reason for a lot of jobs, instead of laws to prevent them like today. With lower spending on the bureaucracy and agencies that attack commerce for their own existence (EPA), what is actually necessary will be found, eventually.

There are potential upsides, however. For one, without current Federal abuses, states can decide what they allow rather than be told what they won't and be left to enforce them. FAA rules are strict. So are crash standards. In the Western States, I can see both getting relaxed. We still have dirt airstrips, if you didn't know. And lower crash standards means those light weight ultra efficient diesels the Europeans have would be legal here, and we'd double our fuel economy without all that weight. We could also drop the crash requirement for test vehicles, meaning we could avoid the trap of the Big 3, now Big 2 automotive companies, and maybe allow those operating here to try test vehicles on the roads too. Give them a bright orange and black X-plate, a license plate that starts with an X for Experimental. Require a helmet on operators, so its inconvenient and uncomfortable rather than an easy loophole to safety standards. States becoming the dominant and enforced source of laws rather than some distant prick in Washington DC who answers to nobody, that changes things. California leads the way by dividing itself. If the states follow along similar lines, so much the better.