I never started off wanting to become a secessionist. This is Marcus Ruiz Evans. He's an author from Fresno, California, and back in twelve he had a big idea, what if it's time to end the United States as we know it. America's entering a period of extreme kickoffs and we're gonna reach some kind of breaking point for Americans across the country to ask themselves, is this something that we want to continue? And I think it is time
to start asking should America begin again? The United States is more divided than ever, which has led a group of activists in California to make a radical proposal to leave. They called their movement cal Exit. So I really see California as this kind of life raft. We can escape the sinking empire. We don't have to go down in the ship. We have to get connected as California's and push for cal Exit before they take away and are right,
because this isn't gonna stop. Cal Exit was started by Marcus and a friend, Louis Marinelli, exploded in size, but as the movement grew, so did the concerns. The guy who's leading the California Independent Woman is sitting in Moscow next to this guy who's we know is funded by the Kremlin. He was taking orders from THEFS feed with the intended purpose of destroying America, and that showed me
how crazy he was. Could Kyle Exit be a solution to America's problems or could accelerate the breakdown of our democracy? The most violent civil wars are the ones over succession. Those are the conflicts that governments will fight to the death over. Wake up to the bad scene? Has they've been on the around? You could hear the voices in the crown, how it goes to five? Win it? Open everything, Go phone and let your kid on. Duh. I'm Shoots
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