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 05.28.09 

"What we need," Gruber told Berkeley faculty members, "is a no-fault, amicable divorce, because all Californians need state government that is closer to the people, and state government needs constituents who have more similar needs, who have a more common purpose."
This entirely reasonable assessment of California's self-induced identity (...and fiscal...and social) crisis comes from a sometimes kooky article in the sometimes kooky SF Bay Guardian. But it has some inherent truth; when even The Economist is calling your state ungovernable, it's time to pay attention to some of the kooks. Wouldn't smaller states give us better representation? More consensus? Less struggle and strife? I love my state, and can't quite imagine cleaving off where I grew up from where I live now, but they are about as different from one another as two places can be. What do we do when a marriage no longer works?
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