Thanks for posting your thoughts!
If I were to join a club and did not like what the club became, I would be well within my rights to quit that club. If I go to see a movie and don’t like it, I can walk out.
So why would anyone believe that the United States is a “once you’re in you can’t leave” type of deal? When someone doesn’t like the state in which they live they are free to move to another state or even another country.
If secession/independence/splitting up is supported for other people in the world why is it not ok for citizens of the United States? And yes, I know that politicians are garbage and want to maintain their power and control.
So please give me your opinion on whether it is legal or not and why you think that way? But please spare me the “if it’s broke, we don’t run away, we fix it” argument. At this point I am fairly certain that it is not repairable.
Secession is legal because there is nothing in the Constitution that prevents it. Since it is legal then the only question remaining is how to go about it? How to permit secession so that both sides of the matter, the states leaving and the states staying, have all their rights protected? The only way to do that is through negotiation and then approval of a majority of the states as expressed through a majority vote in both houses of Congress. In short, leaving should be not more difficult than joining. The hard part would be the negotiations leading up to the vote, but without those negotiations and agreement by both sides you are guaranteeing an acrimonious split.