Then there’s always the well-stated solution in your tagline:
“Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.”
The problem is that we would still have vast amounts of stupid people who would just vote for the same bread and circuses all over again.
At this point, I think Texas needs to leave the union to its imminent collapse, so that all those that voted for this idiocy have the lesson slammed home hard. We can come along later and pick up the pieces after they’ve learned not to be idiots.