If we think that we can somehow gain control of the US government, bring it under popular, enlightened … - David Swanson

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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.

David Swanson

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.

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Activism has always been the driving force for change.

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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.

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

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I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to leave and escaped former slaves had been allowed to remain free, and the North and the rest of the world had been a positive influence on the South. However, it's certainly a possibility that it would have ended sooner if the southern slave owners had agreed to a system of compensated emancipation and freed the slaves without a war and without secession, as most nations that ended slavery did. That absolutely would have been preferable to the Civil War as it happened.

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