“The question is, if one of the states today announced that it was amicably leaving the union (lets say Texas or Vermont), would a tyrannical central government wage a scorched earth war on it rather than letting it go its own way?”
yep.
The question is, if one of the states today announced that it was amicably leaving the union (lets say Texas or Vermont), would a tyrannical central government wage a scorched earth war on it rather than letting it go its own way?
“yep.”
I’m afraid you’re right. Which would bring us back to what our founding fathers, or any group of people who wanted independence, faced.