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.

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.

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

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.

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

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

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.