Ever since we came to Northern Kentucky, and it's been long explained to me, that those states that are a Common Wealth and a few other states have in the past made vocal, their opinions and feelings about a separation. There are quite a few states here along the East Coast and in the MidEast America that would rather be governed like a CommonWealth than a Federation.
When I first heard this, I was like: "Great!" No More Clinton! LOL
Now I feel, while a separation seems like a good idea, it's not going to solve the ongoing hatred Americans share with each other, and the other nations!
Love and Understanding is more like it! But we've long awaited this unimaginative war... Holy War?? Or War of Nations? Or War of Power? or War of Money??? What will it be?
A) Holy war
B) War of nations
C) War of power
D) Economic war
After careful consideration I'd have to go with E) Brass tacks. When my government forces me to disobey the Law of God, that is when I say, "enough." For example, suppose my wife were pregnant and our government had set a limit on the number of children women could bear. We had met that threshold. The law demanded she have an abortion. That is a hypothetical that must be fought, and hard.
Now we're not there yet, but we're getting there. We're coming to a point wherein the Left assumes a priori the truth of its beliefs to the point they thoughtlessly attempt to apply them to us all. Dissenters who don't see things their way are "irrational", not guided by "reason". Yet they all the time deny any absolute basis for reason and arrogate to themselves a fraudulent victory.
In the War Between the States, or Civil War, or War of Northern Agression (depending on your viewpoint), the South fought for state sovereignty. The North fought for national unity. Slavery was an ideological issue that ostsensibly divided brother against brother, but in reality the slave trade was never widely held in high regard even in the Old South. The despicable practice could have come to an end without a war. Contingent on the subsequent end of slavery and segregation in the South, we may have been better off as two or more nations. We'll never know.
Point is, our hope as humans is for peace not war, as illustrated in your Ghost Busters example, Marshmellow Man notwithstanding. But if we must take up arms, it will be for our fundamental rights to worship and live as we deem necessary without federal intrusion, without Big Gubmint extorting our tax dollars to indoctrinate our children with ideas we repudiate, and not the other lofty ideals. Practical, every day things. Brass tacks.
Those are my thoughts, anyway.
CWII, if it happens, will be between those who want to preserve the Union and the Constitution, and those who want to destroy it and replace it with a new "progressive" order.
The way the world is alligning against us, all Americans with a shred of sense will understand that we must all hang together, or we will hang seperately. If the nation splits, we are doomed.
Therefore, I suspect that most of us Southerners, Conservatives, old fashioned Rebels, and so forth, will be fighting under Old Glory.
:)