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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.