I think JB has a point. We split 35/15 and after a few years of Venezuela in the socialist states they’re going to start pumping their people that their lives suck because they got tricked into a bad deal yada yada because if politicians know if they can’t redirect a mobs anger externally they’re screwed.
Additionally, a split like that would signal to the rest of the planet that the superpower US is down for the count and the global statist bags of shit would goad the commie split offs to action and probably supply them with material, money and intel.
We figure out a way to split peacefully or delve into a partisan war that could kill millions. The only thing I am sure of this nation will not go on as things are now. It is an empire with over 300 million people and no cohesion at all. We are too divided now - irreparably. We have to look at reality.