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 Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States, not the profiteers.

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.

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

I'm not convinced that the people of Arizona as a nation couldn't do better to protect equal rights for all than the people of Arizona as part of the United States, which is actually not helping them much.

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.

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.