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