If an individual state was to seceed, or one state here and one state there.....
No.
Look for the USA to break-up down the road.
You mean idealistic patriotic citizen foot soldiers for largess in the North willing to go fight somebody with a gun? Let me stop laughing about that for a minute......I’ll get back to you
Secession is legal, if the consent of the other states is gained and expressed through amendment or through Congress.
Absent that it is not secession but rather insurrection, and I have no doubt that the mismatch between US military power and any insurrection would be greater now than in 1865.
The US government is so over-burdened with debt, size, and ideology, it is frozen in amber. Radical change would simply mean collapse.
I honestly don't think they could even if they wanted to, in this day and age where everybody can take and send video. They first couple times a video leaked of them shelling a school and killing women and children (either by accident or intentionally) there would be a huge backlash not only in the world community by even in the "northern" states they rely on to support the war to end the hostilities and negotiate.
Not only that, but a Civil War II would look nothing like 1861 to 1865 with nice orderly lines of uniformed soldiers marching around, it would look more like the Libyan/Syrian Civil war or even the Iraqi Insurgency, where the combatants can ambush a convoy or base and then blend in with the populace.
No. If that happened, Washington would use nukes against the rogue states.
I see a constitutional convention which disbands the union and reforms it with a less liberal states.
The loss of being a Superpower is no longer a great loss.
3 more years of Obama and we will no longer be a Superpower, if indeed we are still one now.
A military filled with Combat women and queers and finances cut to the bone, dependent on technology to exist.
Yes.
And any credit rating. If the U.S. dissolves and repudiates the existing debt then there is little chance that the new entities will be able to borrow anywhere, even within its own borders.
I wish there were a movement to seccession. I would leave this rathole of a state and join it.
Go back to school and attend all of those math classes you skipped.
This is a fantasy scenario. Interesting conversation, but secession is not going to happen.
To headline: yes
If the union were to break up, the federal debt would not be reduced to zero as those who hold paper on US debt would still want their money and no credit would be extended to the new nations.
Their only option would be to print a worthless currency that would be subject to hyperinflation the moment it was printed.
“: would the federal government have the stomach to wage war like it did between 1861 to 1865?”
Yes, but from where would they draw the soldiers and materials? The north no longer has the men, money, and machines it had in 1861.
Here’s the thing, there will be no CWII
If the world and investors believed that a state (or states) was potentially going to secede from the Union and the United States could actually break up, the economy and the dollar would collapse so fast that panic would ensue and city Liberals will turn on each other and burn their own cities down
There would be so much chaos that Obama or Hillary or whomever wouldn’t have the ability to stop the secession.
Though secession might be pointless after that as there will be so much bloodshed, Liberals would have thinned much of their population out. Rural Conservatives meanwhile would have just passed the popcorn and waited it out and can come back in and pick up the pieces.
A breakup of The United States would be more complex than individual states going their own way. Urban vs rural vs suburbs, liberal regions vs conservative, etc. A large state like Texas with the resources to operate without Washington could pull it off, and could lead other like minded states with it. States where the divide between the democrat controlled cities and conservative hinterlands is greater would have a big problem going it alone.