I’ve read here some years ago, it is compared to a marriage, as in one spouse saying “I’m not happy, I want a divorce” and the other spouse beating them until they decide not to get a divorce.
Sure a state can secede, if they’re strong enough to withstand the beating. Even if the beating is unlawful, it still happens.
Beyond that, you’re 100% correct mek1959.
Excellent way to look at it. I simply find it so troubling as Jefferson stated in the Declaration that "accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." we indeed seem exactly at this point. We're willing to believe a lie propagated by a clever series of myths about the the South withdrawing from the compact, and "suffer" the evils thereof rather than take the blinders off. This must be very disappointing to the Founders, Framers and Ratifiers. I'm certain we would have had a 2nd Declaration of Independence or a break-up of the Union by now if they were alive. Just sad to read how much "Declaration" has swallowed inaccurate history. What he/she believes simply is not accurate.