If your first personal attack fails, hand them another one!
you worship the idea of democracy,
Oh, how awful! We should obviously be bowing before a self-appointed demigod dictator.
and oppose anything that might say "Hey, those people live entirely different, but they're the minority so they should have no recourse because muh majoritarianism."
I've been to San Diego. People there are far more different from people in San Bernadino County than from people in LA.
These people have found that they because of a heavy outnumbering, they have little or no chance of effecting any change on a stagnant cesspool in sacramento, and thus they want to break off so they can govern themselves and not be governed by SF and LA
And what of the countless people in these counties that don't want to secede? Under two separate Californias, they would have little or no chance of bringing about change in whatever backwater capital this new state would establish.