If we think that we can somehow gain control of the US government, bring it under popular, enlightened progressive control, preserve a habitable climate, and rein in the dangers of nuclear and other warfare, then we should. However, if we think it's more likely that California can achieve those goals by secession, then we should go down that path. There's no question. It's an absolute moral imperative.

The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

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.

Breaking the United States up into a number of pieces could be very good for the integration of those new nations with the rest of the world and the international law whose primary enemy is now the United States government. I think that it would be very good for democracy, for people to be within some hundreds of miles of their nation's capital, as they are in many other countries, so that they didn't have to travel thousands of miles to protest, to exercise their First Amendment rights, but that is the current state of affairs in this overly large, imperial nation.

Climate change is so unimaginable that most Americans deny it's happening.