I think secession, ie the US breaking up into several regions would be BY FAR the least harmful and least disruptive of all the potential futures I can imagine at this point. I think the only attachment that most people have to the 48 contigious states being “one land for all of us” is purely sentimental and it never withstands scrutiny.
Examples abound, but if you’re a farmer in western Kansas, how do you think that angry leftist school teacher yelling at protesters at a demonstration in Portland feels about you? And vice versa? Literally, nothing in common. Contempt on all sides.
It’s the most peaceful solution to the present polarized sides. And it would undoubtedly result in many (a dozen? More) alternatives from which people could choose their degree of freedom. Pick your poison, so to speak.
I’ve been trying to tell everybody this. The “cost” of giving up your dream to dominate and dictate to others is a small price to pay to avoid the risk of civil war. In a war, you might lose. Also, you might win at a cost to you that was so great that you’d have been much better off never fighting it.
It would be harmful and disruptive. You don't throw away what you've always had without a lot of harmful stuff coming to the surface. Older countries that have had to struggle and suffer recognize that a national loss of confidence can be traumatic and paralyzing. If you're forced to admit that your national experiment has been a failure, you don't go on to success after success.
. I think the only attachment that most people have to the 48 contigious states being “one land for all of us” is purely sentimental and it never withstands scrutiny.
That "sentimental attachment" may be more real and deeper than current disagreements. We haven't been tested as our parents or grandparents were so we can indulge in political posturing and backbiting, but Americans usually come together when they have to -- in business, in the military.
Examples abound, but if you’re a farmer in western Kansas, how do you think that angry leftist school teacher yelling at protesters at a demonstration in Portland feels about you? And vice versa? Literally, nothing in common. Contempt on all sides.
It's a big country. You see the Portland riots on TV -- a few thousand people a thousand miles away -- but do they really touch your life?
It’s the most peaceful solution to the present polarized sides. And it would undoubtedly result in many (a dozen? More) alternatives from which people could choose their degree of freedom. Pick your poison, so to speak.
You might have to cross multiple checkpoints just to get to work or to the store. And while there will be plenty of alternatives presented by various nutcases. Some of them will be disastrous.
The idea of an American model or way of life will be lost. Some people will fall under a nutcase regime of one sort or other. Eventually most of the successor states will come to follow a European or Asian model and conform to what their new foreign masters' orders.
Sooner or later, a crisis will bring the country back together. Breaking up the country will cause that kind of crisis, but it also makes it happen too late to bring the country together.