I'm actually hoping that California decides to leave the Union, because it would fix a lot of what is wrong in the country now.
We'd keep our military bases though. Unlike Fort Sumter, our Pacific bases are absolutely critical to national defense.
Why would you not support them? You just said when people want freedom it shouldn’t matter what the reason is? But this reason would stop you from supporting them? Your not being consistent in your beliefs.
Then if California left you would want the US to keep the bases? Don’t you believe that the bases would revert back to the state just like you claim Fort Sumter did? (even though south carolina sold the land to the US and if they wanted it back they should have gone to congress to do so because the constitution gives congress the authority over federal lands, not the President).
Also a state can’t just leave the Union. Even if states had that power at one time(which I don’t believe they did) Texas vs White makes unilateral secession unconstitutional.
Still waiting on an answer on why you would not support freedom for a Muslim majority in a state who wanted to break away from the the US but do support a minority of slave owning families (46%) in South Carolina who wanted to break away from the US to protect slavery?
How can an independent California allow a hostile power keep bases within their territory? Especially bases that could be used to bombard their second largest city? Once California announced their secession then the bases become their's, isn't that right?