I think the election of Donald Trump, if you want to call it an election, was unimaginable to most people, which is part of how it happened.

The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States, not the profiteers.

The United States has been becoming worse year after year after year for decades, and it's guaranteed to continue down that path if we don't change something.

Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers.

I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to leave and escaped former slaves had been allowed to remain free, and the North and the rest of the world had been a positive influence on the South. However, it's certainly a possibility that it would have ended sooner if the southern slave owners had agreed to a system of compensated emancipation and freed the slaves without a war and without secession, as most nations that ended slavery did. That absolutely would have been preferable to the Civil War as it happened.

California as a nation or part of a larger West Coast nation, should other states join with California, would be a good influence on the rest of the United States.

Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican.