“Secession is a fantasy of those who can’t bear to face the reality of our sovietesque future ...”
And dissolution was the fate of the Soviet “union”.
Not such a fantasy now.
Whether or not actual secession ever occurs, the premise of my comments were that we are so fractured as a society now, that if (when) a significant nationwide event occurs (war, depression, terrorist attack, etc.) we’ll likely not see recovery from the trauma for generations, if at all.