States seceding.. a tunnel connecting to Russia, not the America I knew and even lived in as a kid.....

While the rest of the United States would be delighted to build a wall around California and leave it to rot and stew in its own effluvia of homelessness, trash, extremely badly run government, and drug abuse, it is not likely that 55% of the citizenry would agree to it. More's the pity.

Then there is the history of secession to consider. It was not allowed to happen prior to the Civil War...and when Texas tried to secede more recently, (1997), the FBI became involved and there was a shootout.

If California TRIES to secede. there goes Gavin Newsome's bid for the Presidency of the United States...🤣🤣🤣...as if he had a chance in hell.

No one would be "happier". Odds are high that if California goes, so will other Western states. Note: talk of California's secession started the day trump was "re-elected", as everyone in the state (of any party) knows that trump hates them (he has made no secret of that).

Weather they realize it or not, the US needs California - and vise versa. IF California secedes, it will have a major impact on the rest of the US (other states who are currently being shunned and/or destroyed by the current administration will be watching the outcome closely). PLUS, if secession happens, trump will immediately try to invade to the "new country" to claim it back, causing an all out civil war (with remaining states taking sides).
As for the cost... the price of an election is normal no matter what (California has numerous elections), but the loss of income and military bases will be damaging for the US.

Good luck:

California has the largest state debt in the U.S., with state and local government debt totaling approximately $1.6 trillion and a recent $12 billion budget deficit. The state's debt is driven by unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, lower-than-expected revenue growth, and high spending on infrastructure and services

California wouldn't leave the United States. most of their money is federal funds. They would have to have trade talks with other countries and they would most likely get tariff tax on goods of all kinds

Mexico because they’d think it was easy pickins for them to take back if it were free from the rest of the USA. A huge amount of beaches, fishing, farmland, oil, forests etc.

Last time we had talk of "independent states", in the USA, we ended up in a civil war.

Oh i see they want to vote themselves into independence 😅 of course 🙄

Nah, just offer to all the southern states that they can leave.

Not the Californians. Commies are never happy.

Yes. close and destroy all 130 military bases