Interesting perspective, thanks for posting it. Out of curiosity, is there a set of circumstances under which you would approve of a political statement like these requests to secede?
Call for a state constitutional convention and put it to a vote. If you get 2/3 affirmative petition Congress for secession.
My ancestry includes an 18th Century Amerindian and mostly 17th Century colonists. The one exceptional branch are early 19th Century immigrants from England and Germany. These ancestors have collectively worked to establish a culture unique in the world for the past 400 years and a government they protected and defended for some 233 years. Their efforts to bring together their communities into mutual protection and defense of their often very different communities has all too often cost them their lives and their fortunes.The adverse impacts of these sacrifices have been felt right into my own generation and generations of my family younger than myself. Consequently, the very suggestion of secession and dividing our hard won community and individual freedoms in which we have so much invested in blood, sweat, and treasure is appalling and reprehensible beyond description. We simply did not come so far in the last 400 years just to throw it all away in some kind of hissy fit and play into the hands of our enemies seeking to destroy our United States.