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.

I think it's more likely that we can make positive changes happen on environment and military issues if states begin to secede. I don't think it's question of personal lifestyle preference or some sort of parochial identification with your state. I think it's an absolute moral demand that something be done to create a government with some power that can be controlled by the residents of its territory. That was supposedly the idea in creating the United States, but it doesn't exist now and we have to make it exist even if it's piece by piece, part of the United States at a time.

Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.

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

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.

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.

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