Be careful what you wish for. You might get it.
Can we please make this happen!! What about Oregon and Washington to Boot?? A package deal for all 3! pic.twitter.com/1CZljIdyaq
— Larry Gator🐊 (@LarryLarrygator) February 24, 2025
In what I hope for their sake is a bit of protest sarcasm, Danish citizens have been gathering signatures for a petition calling on their government to buy California.
For one thing, they couldn’t possibly afford the state. California is vastly larger than Denmark, has a GDP vastly larger than the Scandinavian country., and has a population about 5x larger. It’s GDP is 10x larger than Denmark’s. While the petition calls for buy the state for $1 trillion, that is only 1/4th California’s annual GDP. A cheap price would be about 10x the annual revenue.
Even more troubling, the Danish economy is vastly freer, believe or not, than California. While it is a welfare state, compared to California it is relatively free economically and likely less corrupt.
No amount of mass migration could possibly match the “influx” of foreigners, and the Danes would suddenly have zero say in their own government.
Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris could become their leader, which might be hilarious for the world but deeply damaging to the Danes.
I have some sympathy for the Danes in their fight with Donald Trump, mostly because they feel bullied and insulted because they are being bullied and insulted. Obviously, Trump has legitimate security concerns about Chinese influence in the Western Hemisphere and the arctic, but that doesn’t relieve the sting to national pride that the Danes rightly feel.
It looks to them–speaking only from the Danish perspective–like an NFL linebacker is bullying a 70 lb weakling in terms of power. Who wouldn’t be pissed? Imagine if there were a Danish Donald Trump. Would he roll over?
One doesn’t have to disagree with Trump’s looking out for US interests and be supportive of greater US control over the security of Greenland to see why Denmark might be angry.
So, in a weird way, I sort of admire these people for trying to stick it to us. Unfortunately for them, Americans will rightly laugh at their method of doing.
As the Spartans would say, Molon Labe.
