I understand, but chartering a city does not result in a civil war. No state is going to secede, nor would the fed govt allow it (regardless of original terms of statehood).
People are far, far too timid to organize a secession movement. I’m trying to offer something realistic, though even a city would take a generation to beef itself up into a plausible contender.
And if it were mine to name, I’d call it Tax Haven rather than Liberty City. But I’m a cynic. :)
“No state is going to secede, nor would the fed govt allow it (regardless of original terms of statehood).”
Perhaps not.
But a _group of states_, bound together by like-mindedness and preparation, might be in a position to “break off and float away” on their own, in the event of a total collapse of the DC government.
Everyone with foresight sees some kind of “collapse” coming — that’s the premise of this thread. But must _every_ state be pulled down into the sinkhole when that happens?
Think back in history to one of the great disasters — the Titanic.
When it hit the iceberg, ripping open the forward portion of the ship, it sank from the bow down.
As the bow dropped lower, it pulled the stern of the ship upwards, right out of the water into the air.
But the forces involved were so great, the weight of the sinking bow vis-a-vis the opposing weight of the rising stern, that “the center” could not hold (apologies to Mr. Yeats). The ship tore itself apart, just below the waterline. (Aside: in Walter Lord’s “A Night To Remember”, he mentions “a great noise” that everyone heard before the final plunge. But he never mentioned the “split”, perhaps because no one realized what actually had happened until Robert Ballard discovered the wreckage in 1985. Perhaps the “noise” people heard was the “tearing” of the superstructure itself.)
Once the bow ripped away, it plunged towards the bottom.
The stern “settled back”, before it, too, went down. There were watertight bulkheads “behind” the tear, but they weren’t high enough or strong enough to keep the waters out.
BUT — what if the watertight bulkheads in the stern had been high enough and strong enough to enable the stern to float on its own, once the bow was gone? Could those on the stern have survived?
This is what the red states must do — they must “build a bulkhead” that gives them a chance at survival when the DC government collapses and the blue states plunge to the bottom.
We see the red states taking small steps toward doing this today — laws that shield their citizens from ObamaCare, laws that seek to protect the rights of gun owners, etc.
The governors and legislatures of these states must confer with one another, and agree upon a pathway to the future that is “congruent”. I’m aware that the Constitution forbids compacts between the states (arrived at outside of the federal process), but no “agreements’ need to be codified to paper. It’s more important to agree on a general set of principles that each state will use to proceed _independently_ of one another.
And when the time comes, they will be prepared to actually JOIN together, as the rest of the country falls apart and sinks toward the bottom...