Rather than breaking the US apart, I'd rather see us re-affirm the Constitution where most of the power resides with the States.
Maybe even go further in limiting the power of the Feds to National Defense and certain infrastructure (think Interstate Highways and the power grid), and I'm not even sure about giving them control of the power grid. Departments like the EPA and Education would be eliminated or reduced to a supporting role only and available to help the States "ON REQUEST" and without strings. There are some problems that are too big for a state to tackle alone, or shouldn't have to tackle alone, like border protection and water rights. Georgia should not be allowed to dam up the Chatahoochee and choke Alabama and Florida.
But I see the odds of either to be about the same as the odds of peace in the Middle East. We will become a 2nd or 3rd rate county in a world ruled by strong, decisive leaders (eg: China, Russia or some other dictatorship).
That sounds kind of similar to what Styx said recently in the context of his “libertarianism”. Many of the wackos in the capital L Libertarian Party are purists, like anarcho-capitalists, meaning there should be virtually no centralized government and things like roads and police protection should be completely privatized. The U.S. federal government should be stripped down to next to nothing. Borders should be open, there should be no trade tariffs, no federal regulation of any kind on free markets, no drug laws, no abortion restrictions, etc.
Styx specified that this is NOT his ideology. He presented his preferred scenario which would be to cut the federal bureaucracy by half, lower taxes a great deal, stay out of foreign wars, defend the border, allow states to set their own abortion laws, in fact, return power back to states and local districts as much as possible. This is more or less my philosophy as a small l (el) “libertarian”.
I agree that a return to constitutional originalism is preferred to a breakup and I also agree it is highly unlikely to happen and that our probable destiny is to become a third world country, only richer. The problem is that we are now a duel-culture that has irreconcilable differences and we will continue to simmer with hatred under the boot of a permanent commie-fascist oligarchy.
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