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.

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.

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.

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.

No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.

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 almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.