r/Cascadia • u/Gwarsss Oregon • 6d ago

Martial law

If martial law is declared on 4/20 (also hitlers birthday) we need to make sure we prep. I saw a good post about that. But incase this happens I think we should email our governors, senators, and congressmen/congresswomen to declare independence from the 50 states and join Canada or stay as our own nation. All of Cascadia, and maybe some other blue states also. But we need out states to stand strong if this does happen, please email the governors of Washington, Oregon, and California asking if martial law is declared to declare independence and get in contact with other governors about this subject. Cascadia we need to stand strong, email your governor.

Check comments for the link to the preparations. And if your worrying about it being unconstitutional to declare independence, martial law will most likely be also and you could make a case for this being a overturning of the government by the people for taking away unalienable rights.

Before you hate read the linked post please… it’s also a rumor.

And no this does not mean I believe it.

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u/russellmzauner 6d ago

Cascadia is always ready. Settle down.

Stop calling these states blue, Oregon is barely purple, if even that.

Just because you don't count independents or people who don't declare any party at all doesn't mean they don't exist.

Just because the votes don't go the way you want them doesn't mean the state is flooded with a single party - in fact, quite the opposite.

The line to look at is the bottom line, it's titled: Grand Totals. That will tell you the totals of each registered voter, their party (or lack thereof). This doesn't tell you how they vote, just what people register as and how many there are.

https://sos.oregon.gov/elections/Documents/registration/2024-April.pdf

My point is always: role model and stay calm; the people coming to us will be in the worst state imaginable and living in an incalculable level of fear.

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u/caseythedog345 6d ago

wtf are you talking about lmao oregon is not “barely purple”

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u/DreadGrunt Washington 6d ago

On paper, you're correct, but PNW politics are a bit more complicated than simple Democrat vs Republican. Guns as a topic are a prime example, on paper gun control laws should be winning by 30-40 points in Oregon and WA, but that just doesn't happen when we let the public have a say. Ballot Measure 114 in Oregon only won by a single percentage point even after out of state groups dumped obscene amounts of money into supporting it, and I fully believe if it got put up for a public vote on the ballot that the assault weapons ban in WA would be overturned.

The PNW is certainly left leaning, especially when it comes to civil rights and economics, but there's quite a few topics we rush to the right on too.

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u/AdvancedInstruction 6d ago

paper gun control laws should be winning by 30-40 points in Oregon and WA

Oregon and Washington don't have a 30-40 point Dem margin, they have about a 10 point margin of Dem victory.

Ballot Measure 114 in Oregon only won by a single percentage point

Single issue polling always makes weird coalitions. Drug decriminalization in Oregon got rural Trump voter support.

Oregon Ballot Measure 37 on land use laws was conservative but won in all areas of the state, only to be repealed three years later by Ballot Measure 49, which also had broad support from across the state. Single issues are complicated!

None of those single issues mean that Democrats aren't the political winners in the Pacific Northwest.