The Sovs break up was a lot less painful then it should of been thanks to a whole bunch of hard work and money from the US and the West to make is so. When we fall, like Rome, there will be no one to hold back the darkness
We are also a more volatile people than the essentially beaten down Soviets were. Our dissolution would more likely resemble that of Yugoslavia, writ very, very large.
Still, I prefer that to a totalitarian union.